Stop Spotlight from Searching volumes
11/02/07 01:30 Filed in: Apple
Create empty file named ".metadata_never_index" at
the root of the volume.
(Type "touch .metadata_never_index" in terminal)
This will stop spotlight indexing of the volume (HFS+, NTFS or FAT32), and will stop spotlight to return any results, i.e. you will not be able to search the volume at all with spotlight. You might be able to search using non-spotlight based tools like Easy Find.
(Type "touch .metadata_never_index" in terminal)
This will stop spotlight indexing of the volume (HFS+, NTFS or FAT32), and will stop spotlight to return any results, i.e. you will not be able to search the volume at all with spotlight. You might be able to search using non-spotlight based tools like Easy Find.
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