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| From | Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.system |
| Subject | Re: Spotlight on external drives |
| Date | 2018-06-19 15:29 +0000 |
| Organization | People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates |
| Message-ID | <foslr4Fkeh1U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <xaKVC.349129$DS3.28237@fx42.iad> <pg8cp9$l62$1@gioia.aioe.org> <1OSVC.447213$PE5.35659@fx37.iad> <pgb2bv$168s$1@gioia.aioe.org> |
On 2018-06-19, Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> wrote: > On 2018-06-18 2:25 PM, JF Mezei wrote: >> On 2018-06-18 09:40, Alan Baker wrote: >> >>>> So, the morale of the story: OS-X (High Sierra) considers SATA drives >>>> in an enclosure connected via thunderbolt to be just as external as a >>>> USB key you plug into keyboard. >>> >>> As it should. As it always did. >> >> For 2009 MacPro, it was not the case. The disks were considered >> internal. So that trick worked fine to exclude USB sticks from indexing >> in Spotlight without affecting the data drives. > > No. They were not. > >> But the 2013 MacPro forced move of internal drives to external cabinet >> and I didn't think it would be considered "external" since the >> connection is thunderbolt with a actual cabinet to support internal >> drives that are not removable. > > And now you admit that the drives WERE internal orginally. That can't be true; it doesn't fit the "Apple fucked me over" narrative. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR
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Spotlight on external drives JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-06-18 04:36 -0400
Re: Spotlight on external drives Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-06-18 06:40 -0700
Re: Spotlight on external drives JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-06-18 14:25 -0400
Re: Spotlight on external drives Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-06-19 10:01 -0400
Re: Spotlight on external drives nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2018-06-19 09:27 -0600
Re: Spotlight on external drives Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-06-19 08:48 -0700
Re: Spotlight on external drives Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-06-19 19:11 -0700
Re: Spotlight on external drives Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-06-19 15:29 +0000
Re: Spotlight on external drives Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-06-18 19:13 -0700
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