How To Prevent Spotlight From Indexing External Drives on MacOS
erics, Posted February 26th, 2021 at 11:46:15am
On MacOSX 10.10.5 Yosemite, I was having trouble with Spotlight preventing the clean eject of an attached hard drive.
Using the fuser
command allowed me to see that it what the Spotlight-specific mds
process preventing the eject.
At first, I tried to disable the indexing via the mdutil
command, but that just gave me an error:
I ended up having to force eject the drive:
The actual solution was so very simple, just create an empty file at the root of each external drive you with to prevent being indexed:
ME said on June 29, 2021, 5:21 pm:
great quick answer, thank you