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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 745381" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>Is the disk actually named "Local Disk"? And isn't that your internal drive? I thought you wanted to enable Spotlight indexing on the external.</p><p></p><p>Also... the instructions say you must be logged in as root. Were you? If you weren't, and don't know how to, then chances are you shouldn't. Logging in as root leaves the system very vulnerable to serious mistakes that can hose everything up good. You really should know exactly what you are doing if you log in as root.</p><p></p><p>I assume you have the external drive plugged in? If so, and if the drive icon is on the desktop, you should be able to click once on the icon (to make it "active"), then left click on the name to make it editable.</p><p></p><p>If that doesn't work, then in the Get Info box, click on the lock icon at the bottom to unlock the properties. You probably will have to authorize it with an admin name/password.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 745381, member: 38864"] Is the disk actually named "Local Disk"? And isn't that your internal drive? I thought you wanted to enable Spotlight indexing on the external. Also... the instructions say you must be logged in as root. Were you? If you weren't, and don't know how to, then chances are you shouldn't. Logging in as root leaves the system very vulnerable to serious mistakes that can hose everything up good. You really should know exactly what you are doing if you log in as root. I assume you have the external drive plugged in? If so, and if the drive icon is on the desktop, you should be able to click once on the icon (to make it "active"), then left click on the name to make it editable. If that doesn't work, then in the Get Info box, click on the lock icon at the bottom to unlock the properties. You probably will have to authorize it with an admin name/password. [/QUOTE]
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