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This is sometimes helpful if Spotlight seems to be having a problem: add the troubled drive to Privacy, then remove it. If you remove something from the Privacy pane Spotlight will fire up and create a new index.

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While this takes longer than if the drive were indexed, if I confine my search to a particular folder it is reasonably fast-even searching the whole drive for a particular file name isn't too bad, less than a minute (with a drive that's indexed it is instantaneous). The result is that Spotlight does not index the drive, but it will perform a "brute force" search-runs thru all the files looking for a match. What I did was go in and edit the Spotlight configuration file. When Apple says Privacy, they really mean privacy! I have one drive which I don't want indexed, but I do want to be able to search it occasionally. If something is in Privacy, not only doesn't Spotlight look at any index, it won't search the drive AT ALL.














Mac external drives mac store