Tiger, indexing and sharing drives

[decksnap]

I need to share external drives between systems periodically. How do I keep them from being indexed every time I swap them between systems? I have no use for a spotlight index of these drives.

 

[Blue Velvet]

System Preferences>Spotlight>Privacy... Add folders and drives to the list.

Not entirely sure whether it will 'remember' external drives that are mounted and unmounted but I don't see why not.

My internal backup drive and also my scratch drive are set this way.

 

[Applespider]

Not entirely sure whether it will 'remember' external drives that are mounted and unmounted but I don't see why not.

It does remember. My external FW drive that is partitioned as a backup and overflow for iMovie projects is excluded from Spotlight and remembers not to Spotlight when I next mount it.

 

[decksnap]

Thanks Demi-goddesses!