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Select any drive in the exclusion list that you want to have Time Machine include. I've tried leaving the drive overnight to complete indexing, but it's still going.įeeling out of options now, how do I get to my files? I'm open to disabling Spotlight entirely, but there doesn't seem to be a simple way to do that without disabling System Integrity Protection. You can ensure that external drives are backed up by following these steps: Open the Time Machine system preference pane. Touch /Volumes//.metadata_never_indexīut it returns with an I/O error (presumably because the disk is busy) I've tried to manually place a do not index file using If I unplug it anyway, the exception in the Spotlight tab disappears, so once I plug it in again it starts indexing again right away. To start the process, click on the Set up backup link in Backup and Restore. If you don’t get a backup prompt, you can just go to the Start Menu, Search for backup in Windows to find the backup tool, and click on Backup and Restore. When I eject, it disappears from some menus, but the icon remains in Finder as if it is still mounted. Get a backup USB external hard drive and plug it in the computer. I've tried adding the drive to the exceptions list in Spotlight settings on the Privacy tab, but nothing happens. I'm fairly confident this is an indexing process since I recall having a similar issue a year ago where folders would load, but their contents wouldn't or would go very slowly.

The drive is spinning and reading the entire time though. When I do, the drive appears in finder, but it shows up blank. I'm trying to plug it in to reference some files. I have a hard drive that was used for a Time Machine backup on an old computer.