Mds error “No store registered for scope” for nonexistent volume

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My system log is flooded with error messages like the following:

mds: (Error) Server: No store registered for scope "/Volumes/Storage"

The volume in the error was in use on a previous machine before I migrated to my current machine. Several have suggested adding and removing that volume in the Spotlight Privacy settings, but that volume no longer exists. Is there an mds configuration file somewhere that I can edit so that mds no longer looks for that volume?

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I use Alfred, a utility similar to Quicksilver. I had previously configured it to search /Volumes/Storage for apps, but never told it to stop trying to index that volume once I migrated to the new machine.

I removed the /Volumes/Storage entry from Alfred's list of directories to index, and now the console messages have stopped.

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From Apple Support Communities, with some correction:

Command-S at startup for Single User Mode
Repair the files ystem as indicated on screen using fsck (took three runs)
Mount the file system as indicated on screen, /sbin/mount -uw /
Go to /Library/Caches and do rm -rf *
Go to my home folder /Users/.../Library/Caches and do rm -rf *
Remove a Spotlight folder, rm -rf /.Spotlight-V100
Go to /var/folders and do rm -rf *
Start normally using exit or reboot command as indicated on screen

Be extremely careful with the rm -rf commands! To double-check that you're in the correct directory:

pwd

I hope that helps!

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I have only seen that in relation to Time Machine timing out when preparing a network sparse disk image for backup.(and I've seen it on Snow Leopard and rarely on Lion - but lion is young)

mds is very tightly intertwined in the time machine process, so it could just be time machine asking mds to do some work.

You'll have to disable time machine and watch for other network mounts failing - separate the two and you'll have narrowed it down to one bad actor.

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