How to prevent spotlight from searching external hard drives
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I have an external hard drive connected to my Macbook Pro that I always leave on. When I use spotlight to search for something, it always searches this drive. I don't want it to do this because usually the drive is in standby mode, so it takes a while to power up when I use spotlight to find someth…
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Fix for: How to prevent spotlight from searching external hard drives
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System Prefs --> Spotlight --> Privacy. Add the drive(s) you want to exclude. UPDATE: For a scripting approach try this: Disabling Spotlight in OS X Leopard for the removable drives Should work for Snow Leopard too.
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