How To Prevent Spotlight From Indexing External Drives on MacOS

Author: erics, February 26th, 2021

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 […]

Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: 10.10.5, apple, Disable, diskutil, eject, Halt, howto, Index, Indexing, Mac, MacOS, macosx, mdutil, metadata_never_index, Prevent, Spotlight, Stop, tips, Touch, umountDisk, Yosemite | 1 comment

Off To Elements

Author: erics, January 9th, 2011

We are taking a client and his wife to Elements for brunch. Looking forward to sharing the great food with them. I believe that my client’s fondness for breakfast will be well-satisfied there. Drum roll, please… The production-ready version of his iPhone app is ready! I have even learned how to distribute it easily from […]

Categories: Business, Fine Dining, Technology, Wyzaerd Tags: Ad-Hoc, apple, Elements, Enterprise Program, insomnia, iphone, iPhone App, iPod, iPod Touch, Touch, XCode | No comments