Some Questions About The Disable_Spotlight Script

[Herbert Schulz]

Originally Posted by sjk

Apparently it's stored in the Policy key of a volume's Spotlight-V100/_IndexPolicy.plist file (when it exists, e.g. created with mdutil). And creating a .metadata_never_index file in a volume's root directory may be another way to disable indexing. There's also a magic .metadata_index_homes_only file. I haven't tested either of those and wouldn't rely on them anyway.

Howdy,

I see (and can cat) a .Spotlight-V100/_IndexPolicy.plist file on my backup drive. It has a variable Policy set to 3, whatever that means. I'm guessing that gets eliminated when I do the backup of my system drive to that drive and the script that SuperDuper runs after the backup then re-creates it for the next backup.

That would also mean that you will have to set it active on a disk you build from the backup; i.e., mdutil -i on /Volumes/VolName.

Good Luck,
Herb Schulz