Hardware9to5Macabout 15 hours ago
Mac beach ball fix deletes CoreSpotlight folder
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macOS 26.5 users face beach balls and unresponsive trackpads from high CPU usage by mediaanalysisd, kernel_task, and corespotlightd. Deleting the ~/Library/Metadata/CoreSpotlight folder resolves the issue, forcing Spotlight to rebuild. The fix has held for two weeks without recurrence.
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