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10.4: Disable Spotlight on a FAT32 external drive
Authored by: eAspenwood on Aug 17, '06 09:01:30AM
As, mentioned above I did tryusing mdutil (with various options, including -E and -i) but it did not work for my fat32 drive. It would clear out the index, but immediately start rebuilding it again. My guess is that since the drive has no .Spotlight-V100 directory, it can't really set the indexing status for that drive.
Also, as mentioned above, I tried "Spotless", but it would not recognize my FAT32 volumes in its list of volumes.

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