Disable Spotlight Indexing on a Volume in OS X Revision as of Sunday, 27 December 2015 at 07:27 UTC
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Let’s say our drive is called (and mounted as) Backup Drive
. Open up a
terminal window:
cd "/Volumes/Backup Drive"
touch .metadata_never_index
Et voila!
Via System Preferences
- Go to System Preferences -> Spotlight -> Privacy
- Drag the volume into the list
- Ta da!