Back on the Spotlight merry-go-round

[russellfenwick]

I recently had to repartition the drive I use to backup my main hdd and now I am back in the frustrating position of trying to get Spotlight to not index it :mad: . I add it to the privacy list but it appears SD is re-enabling indexing? This is taken from the log -

| 09:22:40 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Restoring Spotlight search indexing state on Backup
| 09:22:41 PM | Info | /Volumes/Backup:
| 09:22:41 PM | Info | Indexing disabled for volume.
| 09:22:41 PM | Info | /Volumes/Backup:
| 09:22:41 PM | Info | Could not set indexing status for volume.
| 09:22:41 PM | Info | Indexing enabled on Backup

I have tried deleting the .Spotlight folder and turning indexing off using mdutil etc. but for some reason it gets taken out of the privacy list when SD finishes.

Any ideas?

[dnanian]

OK, Russell. Don't turn off Indexing. Try deleting the .Spotlight_V100 folder, then restarting the system. Then, add it to the Spotlight privacy tab.

We'll preserve that setting. Don't turn indexing off, though -- you want to put it in privacy... otherwise, it still gets searched. As long as you're using 10.4.3 or later, it should be properly preserved.

Hope that helps.

[russellfenwick]

Many thanks, that appears to have sorted it, I can stop banging my head on the desk now :)

[dnanian]

Ah, good. That can start to hurt after a while!