disable spotlight search on XP partition

[huong23]

When I use spotlight to search for files, it keeps on looking all mounted partitions on my computer (including my XP NTFS partition), which slows things down considerable because my mac files are on my OSx86 partition only. I've tried putting my XP NTFS partition in the "Privacy" section of spotlight so it won't search there, but it won't accept my NTFS partition to be excluded from spotlight. Any solution to this?

[Thomvis]

I have the same prob, so i unmount my win partitions with DiskUtil.

[Stern]

if you click on the spotlight icon in the top right corner of the screen, and type something in so that it shows a result, click on the link that says show all results. it will bring up a window. on that window, you can choose which partitions you want to search on.

[huong23]

if you click on the spotlight icon in the top right corner of the screen, and type something in so that it shows a result, click on the link that says show all results.  it will bring up a window.  on that window, you can choose which partitions you want to search on.

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I guess that works..but it's a pain to do that each time. How do I set it so my NTFS partitons are unmounted at started (or not mounted during bootup at all)?

[dubhead]

I guess that works..but it's a pain to do that each time. How do I set it so my NTFS partitons are unmounted at started (or not mounted during bootup at all)?

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Best thing is to use a helper App "Tiger Cache Cleaner" disable Spotlight with it. And use for Search EasyFind from DevonTechnology. Spotlight SUCKS!

[Thomvis]

I don't agree, Spotlight ROCKS!

[huong23]

I don't agree, Spotlight ROCKS!

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Same here. Spotlight is much faster and efficient.

[setec]

The first thing I do after a clean reboot is drag my XP mounted partition to the trash bin so that it unmounts.

 

This way spotlight works like its supposed to.

 

If you then need the XP partition again later, use Disk Utility to mount it again.

[keith04]

While unmounting your XP drive will prevent spotlight from indexing it, its not the best solution, as you have to mount it anytime you want access to the files. The easiest way is to set spotlight to prevent it from searching the directory the partition mounts in. (ie: /Volume/XXXXX) This can be done once, and does not need to be re-applied every time you reboot OS X. To do this, go to:

 

>System Preferences

>Spotlight

>Privacy

>Drag the NTFS Volume to the list.

 

 

This will prevent spotlight from searching those locations, and (i assume... correct me if i'm wrong) from indexing the location as well.

 

Hope that helps

 

Cheers,

keith