Help!
My Mac has cheerfully indexed the contents of my external USB drive, complete with a backup of all my applications. Now whenever I right-click on a file and select "Open With", I get duplicate entries for all possible applications, and the first entry for each is the copy on the USB drive!
This means I can barely use my Mac when the external drive is not plugged in, as it hangs whenever I'm trying to open stuff.
How do I stop this happening?!
Posted by savs at July 11, 2005 8:46 PMLOL - simply mount your USB drive, open system preferences, go to the Spotlight section, click the 'Private' tab and drag the folders with your apps (the ones which shouldn't be indexed) to the list. That should do the trick... though I'm not sure how to remove the already indexed apps; maybe unmounting/mounting your drive another time or simply restarting while your drive is connected?
Posted by: Erik Abele at July 11, 2005 9:36 PMThanks for the hint Erik, but:
"I also missed a trick with spotlight indexing: the first time I installed, it automatically started indexing my external drives (which are slow as hell, and don't need indexing). The second time round, I went into System Preferences and into the Privacy tab before plugging in the external drives. When I plugged them in, they automatically appeared in the indexing exclusion list."
http://www.andrewsavory.com/blog/archives/000739.html
I'm going to leave the drives unplugged overnight in the hopes that the reindexing won't include them... dunno if it'll do the trick though.
Posted by: Andrew Savory at July 11, 2005 10:42 PMBetter option is probably Quicksilver ;-)
Posted by: Brian McCallister at July 12, 2005 1:46 AM