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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon aburgh

Add option to disable Spotlight indexing of mounted volume

Open aburgh opened this issue 11 years ago • 1 comments

When a volume is mounted, Spotlight will index it even if it is mounted read-only.

aburgh avatar Nov 30 '13 10:11 aburgh

Some potential solutions:

  • mdutil -d /Volumes/MountPoint
  • mdutil -i off /Volumes/MountPoint
  • append .noindex to the mount point
  • create .metadata_never_index in the root of the file system (an option for the user, but not for the utility)

See also Three Ways to Prevent Spotlight Indexing

aburgh avatar Nov 30 '13 11:11 aburgh