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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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How to disable Spotlight and mds_stores on Mac OS Catalina
I tried all suggested solutions to get control over spotlight, including
Temporarily turn off SIP to disable Spotlight
Turning off indexing on all drives (sudo mdutil -a -i off)
Killing the Task in ActivityMonitor … The mdutil -d <Path> command disables Spotlight activity on a certain Volume while mdutil -i off <Path> turns indexing off. …