Comments on: How to Exclude Hard Drives and Folders from Spotlight Index in Mac OS X

By: Force Spotlight to Ignore Folders & Files with a “.noindex” Naming Extension

Tue, 28 May 2013 21:57:00 +0000

[...] advice is to drag the items to exclude from indexation into the Spotlight system preference panel exclusion list. That’s the recommended approach because it’s simple to use and easy to manage, but [...]

By: prasad

prasad — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:30:25 +0000

thanks…
good job….

By: Martin Schabbauer

Martin Schabbauer — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 01:48:33 +0000

Great – now I understand how to exclude folders from getting indexed. Thanks.

By: Hide Anything from Spotlight in Mac OS X with the Library Folder

Hide Anything from Spotlight in Mac OS X with the Library Folder — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 20:17:14 +0000

[...] you can add anything to Spotlights Privacy list to prevent indexing of that folder or file, the obvious problem with that approach is the file or [...]

By: Stop Spotlight from Indexing Time Machine Backup Volumes & External Drives

Stop Spotlight from Indexing Time Machine Backup Volumes & External Drives — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:05:47 +0000

[...] solution is simple enough, the same method used to exclude something from Spotlight can also be used to stop Spotlight from indexing a Time Machine drive or other external [...]

By: Rebuild the Spotlight Index

Rebuild the Spotlight Index — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:33:08 +0000

[...] if an item is left under the “Privacy” list, it will exclude from Spotlight indexing [...]

By: Hide Folders in Mac OS X

Hide Folders in Mac OS X — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:32:25 +0000

[...] you want to truly hide the folder and it’s contents, take an extra step and exclude the folder from Spotlight indexing. This makes sure that none of the files inside of it can be found through the Spotlight [...]

By: bap

bap — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:07:05 +0000

problem is with indexing of cd’s, which makes it difficult to copy items until the full disk has been indexed

By: Sue Dunham

Sue Dunham — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:34:08 +0000

Thanks. I hated having duplicate items from my back-up.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:05:49 +0000

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By: Mashito

Mashito — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:52:44 +0000

I have a few folders excluded, heh