The Spotlight GUI Freezes after running it for months (4285349)

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The Spotlight GUI Freezes after running it for months
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Spotlight GUI freezes and becomes unusable. It will still send out alarms, but no actions on the interface are allowable. When looking at system resources, memory and CPU do not spike and Spotlight is seen using up to 25% CPU only.
Cause

Alarm.log files for the monitored connection are greater than 100MB.
Resolution

Try running with then Alarm Actions disabled for a while and see if the UI stays responsive. If the UI stays responsive then try to delete the large Alarm Log files.
1. To find the folder path, in Spotlight go to Tools | Migrate Connection and on the first page at the bottom look for "Current Location" and click on the path
2. Close Spotlight and make a backup of the entire folder
3. Search all sub-folders for “Alarm.log” files
4. Delete any (or all) that are larger than say 50MB
5. Restart Spotlight and connect as normal
6. Enable Alarm Actions

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