http://blog.v1ru8.net Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:55:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blog.v1ru8.net/2008/02/09/prevent-spotlight-from-indexing-your-external-hard-disk/ http://blog.v1ru8.net/2008/02/09/prevent-spotlight-from-indexing-your-external-hard-disk/#comments Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:54:17 +0000 Thomas Post http://www.v1ru8.net/2008/02/09/prevent-spotlight-from-indexing-your-external-hard-disk/ Each time when i plug-in any of my external hard disks spotlight starts to index them. I hate it!. Now i found a way to stop that. Just execute the following command in your terminal:

touch /Volumes/Name_Of_Your_HDD/.metadata_never_index

That’s it!

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