Some Questions About The Disable_Spotlight Script

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Originally Posted by dnanian

Actually, since it's not documented I don't know where the information about disabled volumes is kept

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.