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Old 07-08-2005, 08:54 PM
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The thing is, when you copy the data, it also ends up copying the spotlight index. And, at least *part* of the "privacy" stuff seems to be stored on the drive itself, but in an undocumented way.

The disable_spotlight script uses the documented mdutil command-line utility to erase the index on the destination volume and disable indexing for that drive. But, disabled indexing doesn't necessarily mean that searching is disabled. It just turns off the "importer", which should turn off indexing. Spotlight still seems to search the drive, just more slowly...
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