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Spotlight Snooping other user accounts - stop it

I have multiple user account on my machine.
How can I prevent Spotlight from snooping and reporting on other users' files.

I tried using the "Privacy" feature, but apparently you must have write permission in a directory in order to ask Spotlight to not snoop that directory.

In other words, user1 could not prevent spotlight from reporting all the readable files in user2 account.

MACBOOK, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Nov 25, 2006 11:53 PM

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Nov 28, 2006 10:55 AM in response to C Webber1

The issue with Privacy is that when you add a folder to the Privacy list it is both excluded and removed from the index files. Since there is only one set of index files per volume, if one user adds a file or folder to the Privacy list, it is excluded for all users-that would be why only the user that owns the folder can add it to the list.

Spotlight Snooping other user accounts - stop it

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