Timeline for Prevent partitions from Spotlight indexing each other
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| Oct 26, 2016 at 13:19 | comment | added | ele | I'm afraid I gave up without ever finding a solution. | |
| Sep 26, 2016 at 19:38 | comment | added | mdomino | Is there any update on this? I have the same issue with a dual boot MacBook (with two physical drives) that has 10.8.x and 10.12.x. When I exclude 10.12.x on the 10.8.x drive, it gets excluded also on the 10.12.x drive itself and vice versa. That seems ridiculous. | |
| Jul 10, 2013 at 20:12 | history | edited | hoss | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Note regarding same OS incompatibility
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| Jul 10, 2013 at 4:51 | comment | added | ele |
I'm afraid it behaves the same way. If I exclude /Volumes/Macintosh HD 2 from Spotlight while booted into Macintosh HD, then Macintosh HD 2 is still excluded from the Spotlight of Macintosh HD 2. Some further research suggests disabling the volumes from mounting at startup.
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| Jul 9, 2013 at 17:31 | comment | added | hoss |
@ele So after a little more tinkering I found as long as you select the mount path e.g. /Volumes/<partname> and not / it seems to work. in otherwords use the goto folder shortcut and browse to /Volumes then select the volume to ignore from there. Hope that works for you. if so I'll fix up the question again.
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| Jul 9, 2013 at 16:27 | comment | added | hoss | yes so in your example when you are booted onto part-X exclude part-Y, when when you boot into part-Y exclude part-X. I have a machine with 4 partitions and different ignore rules for each. that should function, though I'm testing on 2x10.6's, 1x10.7 and 1x 10.9. | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 16:16 | comment | added | ele | Okay, thanks. That's what I thought you meant. The trouble with this is that the volume is then ignored on the other partition (itself) as well. I want each partition to ignore the other one but index itself. | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 16:09 | comment | added | hoss | No, I clarified my answer, you can also just select it from the sidebar. | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 16:08 | comment | added | ele | Is that different than selecting the partition from the Finder sidebar? | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 16:07 | history | edited | hoss | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Clarification for entering path via finder.
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| Jul 9, 2013 at 15:41 | history | answered | hoss | CC BY-SA 3.0 |