How to prevent Spotlight from Indexing Backup Drives?

05-12-2007, 11:32 PM

TomBB

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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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