![]() I do think the Don't Index flag or file is separate from the partition's logical name because, when I erase the partition in preparation for a new backup clone, I don't change the name of the partition, and the name of the device to be cloned doesn't change either. Whether the Don't Index flag is Mac specific, so that Mac 1 doesn't want that external indexed but Mac 2 does, is another question. While the process of putting each external on each Mac's Privacy list is a pain, it should only be necessary to do it once. The Privacy listing for a given external only disappears when the external isn't attached it reappears when it is attached so either a local record of "Don't Index" is only shown as necessary or, more likely, that record is on the external and is read as part of the mounting process when it's connected. I'd assume it also works that way with ML and Mavericks, but you never know. After being erased, the partition is no longer on the Privacy list and has to be added again, where it stays until the next erasure. One hint to a solution may be that the exception to staying on the privacy list when connected is if I erase the partition with Disk Utility in preparation for making a backup clone (the name of the partition doesn't change). I don't know if the Privacy listing status for those externals is retained locally or is present somewhere on each external, but those externals don't get indexed when they're attached. But if I then reattach the external, the drives/partitions reappear in the Privacy list. When those drives/partitions aren't connected, they don't appear in the list. The first time one gets plugged into my Mac Pro, Spotlight begins to do its thing, but when I add each partition of each drive to the Privacy panel, indexing stops. I don't know if this will help any, but I have a number of external devices, each with multiple partitions, which I do not want indexed. metadata_never_index" (so it's more obvious when indexing is turned off). Is there an non-invisible equivilent to ".metadata_never_index" file in /Volume, will it effectively prevent indexing on any mounted drive, without affecting the Macintosh HD indexing? ![]() ![]() Spotlight-V100 directory in my EXT Drives, without the risk of causing a problem? metadata_never_index" file supported by OSX (Mavericks and MtnLion). It may be that I have to delete it manually (probably because Privacy is a COMPUTER setting (not on HDD setting). I was hoping that OSX would delete this for me after I set Privacy or add the ". I assume this works, but it's hard to tell for sure, because the moment I plug a drive in, my machine seems to start indexing faster than I can create this file. metadata_never_index" file prevents Spotlight indexing. But with a dozen or so external drives (HDD and Thumb) on 5 machines, that's too much work each time I plug a drive into a machine. I know I can (after plugging in a EXT drive), use the privacy function in the Spotlight Preferences. I'd like to prevent Spotlight from indexing my External drives. ![]() None sit permanantly in any machine (because most of my machines are laptops). Most of these external drives are plugged into different machines from time to time.
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