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How to prevent Spotlight from Indexing Backup Drives?
Recently purchased an external drive and Super Duper, and am perplexed on how to prevent Spotlight from indexing my imaged drives on the external HD. I have gone to spotlight preferences, but when I drag the Ext drive images to the drop field, they are not added, nor when I use the + sign to add them.
Anyone found a solution to this issue? Thanks all you gurus and people with opinions! |
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Try erasing the drive with Disk Utility, then restart your Mac. Once restarted, see if it goes int the Privacy tab...
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Thanks Dave, that worked!
I also found out how to then force spotlight to reindex my main HD via the terminal. Really pretty easy to do if others want to reindex, even for a novice--just make sure to do it from an administrator account, not a standard user account.
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(For those who don't know, it's
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sudo mdutil -E -p "/Volumes/the-volume-you-want-to-index"
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Should I care if Spotlight re-indexes my backup drive (it is doing this)?
If not, should I let the re-indexing complete before I backup? How about when I use my backup drive to bring my vacation home Mac up-to-date? |
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I'd certainly add the backup into Privacy. Not quite sure what you mean about your vacation Mac -- you mean Spotlight?
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When I'm ready to return home, I back up the vacation iMac that I've been using, to the external, and then copy IT back into the main iMac upon my return. I guess I don't understand "Privacy." I'll have to look into that. OK, I found it. I dragged the external into the window, and I suppose that's that. Last edited by t3rockhall; 05-17-2007 at 11:38 AM. |
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Yep, that's that!
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For me, it's not that. Spotlight keeps reindexing my backup drive, and it's really annoying.
It doesn't happen all the time. Maybe once out of every five backups. I plug the drive in, turn it on, and then it starts grinding away as Spotlight tries to create its index. I have to turn it off, otherwise the backup will take forever if I try to backup to that drive while Spotlight is indexing it. I have no problem adding the drive to Spotlight's privacy list, and as soon as I do that it immediately stops indexing, and I can proceed with my backup. But I have to keep doing that, over and over. Spotlight seems to occasionally forget that I don't want it to index this drive. Why? |
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