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I've had this happen a few times. It can be really annoying. You can stop the Spotlight indexing in the System Preferences, just add or drag the volume you like to stop to the privacy. And if you take it back out again it'll restart indexing.
For me, there was a couple of errors which was causing Spotlight to get stuck. I had to do First Aid a could of times, and then restart the indexing process. After I let it run over night it was fine and I haven't noticed it since.
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Does anyone else's Mac crawl to a halt when spotlight/finder is indexing, both on my work Mac and my Macbook pro (2018). When indexing they both struggle to do basic tasks like browse the web - pages take a minute or so to render, its like the cpu is running at 100% (but Isn't, I checked),
Is there a fix, or a way to at least pause it? It just starts randomly, inevitably when Im trying to get something done to a deadline.