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Questions about Spotlight, a system-wide desktop search feature of Apple's OS X and iOS operating system.
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Spotlight, infinite indexing, secondary drives, and NAS
to turn indexing off:
thomas$ sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/nfs-spotlight/
Password:
/Volumes/nfs-spotlight:
Indexing disabled.
...or even better disable spotlight activities:
thomas$ sudo mdutil … -d /Volumes/nfs-spotlight/
/Volumes/nfs-spotlight:
Indexing and searching disabled. …