Comments on: Leopard: Prevent Spotlight From Searching Certain Folders http://www.technipages.com/leopard-prevent-spotlight-from-searching-certain-folders.html Tech Resources Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:38:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: zee http://www.technipages.com/leopard-prevent-spotlight-from-searching-certain-folders.html#comment-2514 zee Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:26:46 +0000 http://www.technipages.com/leopard-prevent-spotlight-from-searching-certain-folders.html#comment-2514 Unfortunately even if i ad a folder in privacy panel spotlight still searches that specific folder. Is there a reason for that? Unfortunately even if i ad a folder in privacy panel spotlight still searches that specific folder. Is there a reason for that?

]]> By: jeff http://www.technipages.com/leopard-prevent-spotlight-from-searching-certain-folders.html#comment-741 jeff Sun, 17 Feb 2008 06:18:20 +0000 http://www.technipages.com/leopard-prevent-spotlight-from-searching-certain-folders.html#comment-741 But did you know that the the folders marked for privacy are viewable to other user accounts (I verified this when using a guest account) when they select the spotlight pref pane in system prefs, and in fact can be removed from the list by a guest account user. Fortunately, it doesn't make the private folders accessible to the guest account user, but the changes do take effect when you log back into the user account where the folders were marked private, that is they're now searchable. But did you know that the the folders marked for privacy are viewable to other user accounts (I verified this when using a guest account) when they select the spotlight pref pane in system prefs, and in fact can be removed from the list by a guest account user.

Fortunately, it doesn’t make the private folders accessible to the guest account user, but the changes do take effect when you log back into the user account where the folders were marked private, that is they’re now searchable.

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