• Mac OS X

    Disable Spotlight Indexing

    Spotlight indexing is automatically disabled in Mac OS X Server and automatically enabled in Mac OS X. The mdutil command can be used to enable/disable indexing per volume. To enable indexing on a volume you would use the -i option followed by on and then the volume name. For example, if you wanted to enable Spotlight indexing for a volume called bighonkinvolume you would use the following command: mdutil -i on bighonkinvolume Whereas to then disable Spotlight indexing on that same volume you would use the -i option again followed by off this time. For example: mdutil -i off bighonkinvolume Alternatively, there is a GUI tool called Spotless that provides…