[rslifka]

Hi all,

Searched for this, but couldn't find it.

I would like to tell Spotlight not to examine my external volumes, as they contain backups of what's on my internal volumes. It makes Spotlight a bit slower when they are powered on.

Rob

[TETENAL]

System Preferences->Spotlight->Privacy

drag your external drives in there.

[rslifka]

You know, it didn't even occur to me to check that tab. Figured it was something to do with encryption

My otherwise idle external drive thanks you,

Rob

[rslifka]

Is there a way to drag the whole drive in there? I can't see /Volumes in the finder and I can't "Choose" the drive.

[wataru]

Drag its icon from the desktop, or from the "Computer" view in the Finder.

Or use the Finder's Go To Folder command to go to /Volumes.

[rslifka]

Many thanks for the assistance guys, but no dice thus far.

Dragging the USB icon for the drive gives me the drop-target (i.e. the folders list is highlighted in black) but when I realease it, nothing appears.

Nor can I add individual folders contained on that volume directly from the finder.

Folders on my internal drive are added no problem.

Weird!

Rob

[tomrock]

Take a look at this http://www.fixamacsoftware.com/software/spot/index.html

[Thinine]

Adding to the privacy list seems temperamental. You may want to wait a moment and see if it shows up anyway.

Another way to turn off Spotlight for the drive is to use the command line: sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/nameOfDrive

[HouseSold]

Originally Posted by Thinine

Adding to the privacy list seems temperamental. You may want to wait a moment and see if it shows up anyway.

Another way to turn off Spotlight for the drive is to use the command line: sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/nameOfDrive

On our iMac G5 iSight model the hard drive is constantly audibly accessing, if while idle (not sleeping)
Will dragging the hard drive image in system preferences/spotlight/privacy correct this?

Thanks in advance