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Disable Spotlight search in Time Machine backup

Fresh7 days ago
Mar 15, 20268087 views
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Problem

I'm running Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and am trying to disable Spotlight indexing on my Time Machine hard drive, as the mds and mdworker processes are running wildly through all day at 15-60% of CPU... What bugs me is not that my MacBook is running slowly but that this CPU consumption kills some cycles of…

Error Output

/:
    Indexing disabled.
/.MobileBackups:
    Indexing enabled. 
/Volumes/Files:
    Indexing and searching disabled.
/Volumes/Komodo-Edit-6:
    In…

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Fix for: Disable Spotlight search in Time Machine backup

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Most likely it is not possible From Spotless's (An OSX app which helps disable Spotlight indexing) change log: So it looks like even programmatically you can not disable Spotlight from indexing Time Machine.

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