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10.4: Disable Spotlight on a FAT32 external drive
Authored by: chyna4xena on Aug 27, '06 06:14:47PM
By using the 'touch' command. When you use touch on an existing file, it will change the modification date and access time of that file to the current time.

Using the touch command on a file that does not exist creates an empty file with that name.

So to use this hint, go into Terminal, change the current directory to the top level of the FAT32 drive:

cd /Volumes/(volumename)

(OR you can type 'cd' in the Terminal, then enter a space, and then drag the FAT32 volume from the Finder into Terminal's window. This will format the command for you. Switch back to Terminal and hit enter.)

Then use:

touch .metadata_never_index

to create the empty file.

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