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mckyvlle

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Nov 21, 2007
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London, UK
Is there any way to permanently make Spotlight ignore USB drives?

It is no good when I plug in my friends' USB sticks or HDDs, then Spotlight start indexing those drives and dumping a bunch of folders in there... :eek::(

I know about the ".metada_never_index" trick, but that is only fine with USB drives that I own.

Any ideas?
 
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