How to disable spotlight index for specific folder in Mac OS X?

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i just learned how to disable spotlight index for specific folder at my mac machine. While spotlight keep indexing my external harddisk and new folder i just copied from network drive, my Mac machine temperature increase. To prevent this happen again, i found the way to disable spotlight index for specific folder.

Follow the steps below to disable spotlight index for a folder:-

  • Go to System Preferences, click on Spotlight
  • Go to Privacy tab and click + to add the folder that you want to disable for index
  • Once you added the folder, spotlight will not index the folder anymore.
    * You can add your external harddisk to the list but it wont be permanent.



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