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:-
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- 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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Using Spotlight’s Privacy feature prevents Spotlight from indexing AND searching in the “private” folder/volume. If you only want to prevent indexing (because it is a massive processor hog), go into Terminal and enter the command:
sudo mdutil -a -i off
If you wish to periodically re-index your HD, you can turn it back on:
sudo mdutil -a -i on
Any suggestions on how to manage Spotlight without Terminal would be appreciated.
Thanks,
My Mac has been trying to constantly index my external NTFS drive & it’s been a pain in the ass; majorly slowing my system down & wearing out my hard-drive.
OSX sucks sometimes