How to stop Spotlight indexing a networked Time Machine backup?
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Mar 15, 20269116 viewsConfidence Score0%
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My Time Machine backs up to a hard drive connected to my Airport Extreme. After I've upgraded to Lion I have noticed that the process (the Spotlight indexer) has been running at 100% cpu every now and then. A simple file activity check told me that it was trying to index my Time Machine backup. I h…
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There is a command line option Wheat; So on the Mac you need to: Then you need to reboot (it seems that indexing does not stop until the Mac has been rebooted in some cases). The first line will disable the indexing, the second line should delete al…
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