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I have an external drive that I attempted to exclude in Spotlight. It reported that it was a Time Machine backup disk and the fact is that it has never been used for that purpose. I'm completely puzzled by this. Is that a feature of Catalina or a fault?
MacBook
Found the problem.
Someone DID use it as a Time Machine backup (unbeknown to me) and it was a long time ago (2015). I removed the Backup.backupdb folder, emptied the trash and then had to remove a couple of .com.apple files in the root directory and it is now happily interpreted by Spotlight as just an ordinary external drive.
Found the problem.
Someone DID use it as a Time Machine backup (unbeknown to me) and it was a long time ago (2015). I removed the Backup.backupdb folder, emptied the trash and then had to remove a couple of .com.apple files in the root directory and it is now happily interpreted by Spotlight as just an ordinary external drive.
Spotlight and excluding external drives
