Timeline for How to stop OS X from writing Spotlight and Trash files to memory cards and USB sticks?
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 8:04 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Sep 30, 2016 at 0:37 | comment | added | Otheus | This worked for me. Disk usage by Spotlight went from 2GB to 200k. The fact that spotlight takes up so much disk usage on an empty disk is insane. I wonder if we can pull together this solution and some kind of USB-based trigger script, which detects which kind of USB device is in there and runs this command automagically. Any ideas on that? | |
| Feb 16, 2013 at 8:21 | comment | added | mmmmmm | Note sudo asks for the current user's password | |
| Feb 8, 2012 at 20:18 | history | edited | gentmatt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 8, 2012 at 20:05 | history | answered | Chainsaw | CC BY-SA 3.0 |