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Javi74

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Dec 5, 2020
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Hi. I'm having this problem. I've a mechanical hard drive attached to the MBA M1. Every time I use Spotlight the MBA revs the drive up, and, as it's quite an old drive, it takes a couple of seconds. Until the hard drive is accesible, spotlight doesn't give results.

If I go to System preferences-spotlight and try to add the drive to the "Prevent spotlight from searching in this locations" (sorry, not sure if that's the exact name, my OS is in a different language), I get a message saying that it can't be added because it's a Time Machine backup folder.

Any idea about how to solve this problem and turn spotlight a bit more agile?

Thank you very much, and excuse my limited English.
 
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