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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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Exclude files from "central metadata store"
The command mdfind uses the Spotlight backing store. If you go to the Spotlight pane of System Preferences and select the Privacy tab you can exclude files or folders from being indexed. … defaults write /.Spotlight-V100/VolumeConfiguration.plist Exclusions -array-add 'path/to/exclude'
where /path/to/exclude is a path relative to filesystem root. …
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