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ID: 6338139

URL: rdar://problem/6338139

Title: Spotlight: preference to not index external drives

Originated Date: 02-Nov-2008

State: Duplicate/6079491

Fixed? No

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Description:

When I plug in an external drive, Spotlight starts to index it automatically. I almost never want this to happen. Please provide a preference that allows me to turn off automatic indexing of external drives. This is a constant problem for me, because I have many external drives that I use for various purposes such as backup, and I don't want Spotlight to index them or put hidden directories on them or modify them in any way. For example, I'll often have a clone of some volume on an external drive, and I don't want Spotlight to index the clone.

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