Where does Spotlight keeps the excluded folders

Asked Mar 20 '18 at 14:38

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Does Spotlight keeps the privacy excluded folders in some special configuration file ?

Those folder are configured under system preferences -> spotlight -> privacy

I believe it should be somewhere under /Library/Preferences/ .. This data is persistent so it must be kept in file, but which one, perhaps it's not purely textual file (xml plist format) but binary one ?

EDIT: I've found out that the file which keeps the file reside in /.Spotlight-V100/VolumeConfiguration.plist in the Exclusions array :

    <key>Exclusions</key>
    <array>
    ...
    ..
    .
    </array>

However, if I add new exclusion to the list, it doesn't appear on the UI.

thanks

edited Mar 20 '18 at 15:00

asked Mar 20 '18 at 14:38

Zohar81

With macOS System Integrity Protection these files aren't writable any longer. – sandstrom Jun 11 '20 at 07:55
Duplicate of: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/87090/how-to-programatically-add-folder-to-spotlight-do-not-index – sandstrom Jun 11 '20 at 07:56

Where does Spotlight keeps the excluded folders

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