I have a Mac Pro and I recently had a problem where Spotlight wouldn't find anything on one of my drives. By poking around, it seemed somehow that the index had become corrupt on that drive. I used mdutil to turn off indexes on all drives, rebooted, and then turned indexing on again. This includes the separate internal drive that I have for Time Machine.
So, after the indices were built again, I noticed something that maybe is normal that I just had not noticed before. Let's say I have a file on Time Machine called xyz that I deleted a few days ago. When I type xyz in Spotlight, I get no results, as expected. If I hit "Show All" then xyz shows up, possibly many times, because it's on the Time Machine volume. Now, maybe it was always like this and I just never noticed before, but I'm concerned that this isn't normal, that results from the Time Machine volume should be automatically hidden.
Can anyone else tell me if this is normal behavior - that searches in Finder include files on internal Time Machine volumes - or if I've messed something up? Thanks very much in advance.
So, after the indices were built again, I noticed something that maybe is normal that I just had not noticed before. Let's say I have a file on Time Machine called xyz that I deleted a few days ago. When I type xyz in Spotlight, I get no results, as expected. If I hit "Show All" then xyz shows up, possibly many times, because it's on the Time Machine volume. Now, maybe it was always like this and I just never noticed before, but I'm concerned that this isn't normal, that results from the Time Machine volume should be automatically hidden.
Can anyone else tell me if this is normal behavior - that searches in Finder include files on internal Time Machine volumes - or if I've messed something up? Thanks very much in advance.