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Spotlight privacy on former Time Machine drive

I had assigned an external raid to be used as a Time Machine backup for a single time use. I've since removed the raid from being a Time Machine drive. But for some reason, Spotlight won't let me add folders from the raid into the Privacy tab. I get the "Folder Name is a Time Machine backup folder. You can not add it to the privacy list."


The raid is no longer assigned as a drive in Time Machine. This is on my 2017 5K iMac on 10.15.7.

Anyone know how to solve this?


Thanks!

iMac Line (2012 and Later)

Posted on May 7, 2021 7:01 AM

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Posted on May 7, 2021 3:21 PM

I relaunched Finder and it solved my issue.

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Spotlight privacy on former Time Machine drive

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