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Prevent Searching External Drive

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in Mac OS X

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I have a backup drive that I have plugged into my MacBook and I have time machine and superduper for backups. Whenever I search for something in Finder I get multiple results because it looks on my external drive. Can I disable searching my external drive in Mac OS X?


Very easy to do...





Click on System Preferences --> Spotlight --> Privacy Tab and then click on the + located at the bottom and select the drive or folder that you don't want spotlight to index.



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You can delete the .SpotlightV100 file on the external drive and disable indexing using Terminal by typing:



sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/External






or you can erase the spotlight metadata index by typing:



sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/External


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