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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1815773" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Open System Preferences, then Spotlight. Uncheck one of the options on the tab to remove it from Spotlight. Now close System Preferences. Reboot. Now open Sys Pref again and check what you unchecked. </p><p></p><p>That process will force a reinventory of your drive by Spotlight and that will, in turn, eventually show up in System Information. It may take a while, depending on how big the drive is and how many files you have on it, so be patient. It could be a couple of days before the inventory is completed. (It runs in the background and is low priority, so it goes slowly when it has to inventory the entire drive, which is what the process forced.)</p><p></p><p>Or you can just wait and eventually they should disappear from Sys Info. May I ask why that's important to you? Is there some reason to want them out of there immediately?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1815773, member: 396914"] Open System Preferences, then Spotlight. Uncheck one of the options on the tab to remove it from Spotlight. Now close System Preferences. Reboot. Now open Sys Pref again and check what you unchecked. That process will force a reinventory of your drive by Spotlight and that will, in turn, eventually show up in System Information. It may take a while, depending on how big the drive is and how many files you have on it, so be patient. It could be a couple of days before the inventory is completed. (It runs in the background and is low priority, so it goes slowly when it has to inventory the entire drive, which is what the process forced.) Or you can just wait and eventually they should disappear from Sys Info. May I ask why that's important to you? Is there some reason to want them out of there immediately? [/QUOTE]
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