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Tech198

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Mar 21, 2011
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Hi all..

After excluding a folder in Spotligh Preferences >> Privacy tab, it appears it doesn't work (or i'm not doing it right), as after i add folders, then search via spotlight, I still get these files/folders appearing in spotlight results, even though the folder(s).

I'm trying to exclude Downloads folders ..... Maybe you can't exclude default Apple folders ?

In any case, I looked into this, and came up with this :

http://macamour.com/blog/2011/04/04...ghts-data-base-then-reindex-your-hard-drives/

Would this be the cause, the reason why Spotlight cannot prevent this is because its already been indexed ?

Any solutions here ?
 
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