Originally Posted By: Hal Itosis
I do observe there that two Microsoft importers exist... but i really have no idea if that's 'right' or 'wrong' (or acceptable or exceptional or what). Perhaps the Entourage import features are also covered by the Office importer. Perhaps that wouldn't matter anyway.

I don't know if this is useful information or not.....but I don't use Entourage and don't even have it installed on my machine. The installation of the importer would have been a Microsoft decision, not mine.

Originally Posted By: Hal Itosis
Somehow, your problem probably runs deeper. Sorry to keep tossing terminal commands at you, but i'm hoping to see if anything unusual sticks out...

No problem at all. It only takes a moment and I'm glad to do it. Here are the current results:

I entered:

mdutil -s -a

and got:

/Volumes/Time Machine:
Indexing enabled.
/:
Indexing enabled.
/Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb:
Indexing enabled.
firstname-lastnames-imac:~ myname$


I entered:

ps axcu |sed '1p;/ md/!d'

and got:

firstname-lastnames-imac:~ myname$ ps axcu |sed '1p;/ md/!d'
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
myname 671 0.0 0.8 2475488 16104 ?? SNs 4:01am 0:00.35 mdworker
root 28 0.0 6.2 3360504 130496 ?? Ss 9:45pm 0:05.85 mds
firstname-lastnames-imac:~ myname$

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