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Back on the Spotlight merry-go-round
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 . 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? |
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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.
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Sorted
Many thanks, that appears to have sorted it, I can stop banging my head on the desk now
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Ah, good. That can start to hurt after a while!
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