Permanently Disable Spotlight on Disk That Is Used with Rsync

Things to try...Set the .metadata_never_index file to stationery or lockedPut the entire backup structure inside a folder called myBackup.noindexAdd it to the Privacy pane in Spotlight settings. [I do not know where that data is stored - if it's on the boot drive, then it will work, if it's on the relevant external drive, back to 1 & .

1. Has the recent spotlight of Obama's relationship with his controversial pastor switched your vote?

Because I am a flaming liberal I was going to get 10 dead people to vote for Obama and 10 dead people to vote for Hillary. Now I am switching their votes to McCain

2. How would you deal with your significant other being in the spotlight and adored by a lot of fans?

I have never experienced this personally,but I had several clients who did. It obviously puts an extra strain on a relationship. There is temptation everywhere, and the well-known partner can be placed in compromising positions through no fault of their own. All of these stressors could be compounded by the couple being apart for weeks or months, when the well-known person was a performer.The successful relationships always relied on open communication and trust, just like all relationships do. They could laugh together over the silly antics of overzealous fans. The well-known partner was reassuring about their total love and devotion. They also had a strong moral stance against cheating. Most of them had seen their peers fool around, and had seen the negative consequences.

3. How can a planet have a deadly eclipse-like "spotlight”?

Let's have some cosmic fun.Say that your planet orbits inside of an expanding red giant star.Yep.Now, say that someone or something decided to construct a shell around your world, perhaps before it had been engulfed by your host star as it evolved from the main sequence. This shell may be layers upon layers of orbital rings. Now, say that this shell--made of some impossible material, probably--has some degree of translucency to it and the ability to change this translucency. You can have one hemisphere of the shell totally opaque to simulate night, with perhaps little points of translucency to simulate stars, and the other hemisphere translucent to simulate daylight (much less a simulation this point, because actual starlight would be entering).Finally, let this shell have some circular region of total transparency which sweeps the planet, perhaps moving across the shell faster than the day-night cycle to give the folks on all sides, day or night, some of the action. You can think of the shell as being comprised of a bunch of little windows if you would like, like pixels on a screen, that can be tinted and whatnot and can be made to filter out the unnecessary or harmful radiation of the star it is orbiting inside. The transparent portion would not filter these things, allowing death to beam down onto everything below. Heck, perhaps it even has little perforations or 'openings of the windows' that allow actual, high-energy particles to enter as well.

4. Why is Fox News giving a spotlight to these goofy "Tea Party" protests?

You THINK (as you clearly stated) they are "goofy"...That's YOUR opinion...nothing more. What it is...in reality...is American citizens, exercising their RIGHT to protest, their right to free speech, just as you are exercising your right to free speech by calling them goofy. Is not America great?

5. How do I hide the Spotlight icon on Yosemite, but keep the Spotlight functionality?

I ended up removing the icon and Spotlight Search functionality and now I use Alfred instead ; it's faster and it is free (with paying extension that you mostly do not need).Removing the Spotlight visible application (and the icon) the indexation services are not stopped, only the graphical user interface is stopped i.e. both the icon in the top menu top bar and the Search window when Space. This is why you need another application to access these indexes, such as Alfred.So the following command that changes the permission to make Search not executable.as said it does not completely disable spotlight, it only removes a the graphical user interface of Spotlight. Logging out and in may be sufficient, if not just reboot.You can revert it with this commandSame here you have to log out or restart.This method is still working with 10.10.3.This method is probably not exactly what the question asked but it has the merit to limit the manipulation screw ups. Just changing the files permissions is way easier than changing the binary of a program. to just to do not show the Spotlight icon the binary of Spotlight