Don’t you want to search your backups? Like it or not, Spotlight will still index them, even if it doesn’t tell you that it is.
Time Machine
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My external drive hosting Time Machine backups cannot be ejected, so I switch it off or pull the cable. How can I stop Spotlight from indexing it?
How can I find an old phone number in my Time Machine backup?
I have found some files with odd names which occupy lots of space. Can I delete them?
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