Dave's disable_spotlight script vs. privacy window

[themace]

Where do I get the disable_spotlight script?

Originally Posted by Jay Moonskip

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I have a Seagate external hard drive connected via USB to my PowerBook G4. I use this drive and SD to maintain a bootable clone of the PowerBook's hard drive. This part works fine. Each time I update the clone (using "Smart Update"), I close the session by running the disable_spotlight script provided by Dave. But then when I do a search with Spotlight, the duplicate files on the external drive are listed right along with the originals on the PowerBook drive. I also hear drive activity on the Seagate when I don't expect it, as though Spotlight is indexing it.

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[dnanian]

It's in the FAQ, "themace"...

[Piggy]

You might want to take a look at Spotless from www.fixamacsoftware.com. It will help you manage Spotlight. I just used it to clear up a problem I was having with iDisk indexing that I could not resolve from the command line.

I find it annoying that Spotlight searches disks that are Spotlight disabled. Hopefully Apple has plans to add more control over Spotlight.

[dnanian]

The handling is a bit weird. But, putting it in Privacy does seem to disable searching... but you can't put it in privacy if spotlight is disabled for the volume... like I said, weird stuff!