Today I discovered that Spotlight will not honor my requests to ignore folders or files that I add to the System Preferences-->Spotlight-->Privacy tab until I reboot my MacBook Air. I can't possibly be the first one to discover this behavior, can I??

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Spotlight Privacy (i.e., ignore folder) Prefs Not Honored Until Reboot

Today I discovered that Spotlight will not honor my requests to ignore folders or files that I add to the System Preferences-->Spotlight-->Privacy tab until I reboot my MacBook Air. I can't possibly be the first one to discover this behavior, can I??

MacBook Air 2010, Mac OS X (10.6.6), 13" 4GB RAM 128GB SSD

Posted on Feb 18, 2012 1:55 PM

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Spotlight Privacy (i.e., ignore folder) Prefs Not Honored Until Reboot

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