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USB hard drive cant be excluded from Spotlighting?

I wonder if it's just me...
I try to add the drive to the exclude list, but it just doesn't go there. I'm doing this because it seems to be making my computer slow. Is there a fix or an alternate method I don't know about?
[250 byte] By [Ika] at [2007-11-15 21:56:05]
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# 1 Re: USB hard drive cant be excluded from Spotlighting?
I don't know where your problem results from, but I had none excluding my USB-stick from indexing.
Smircle at 2007-11-17 13:01:58 >
# 2 Re: USB hard drive cant be excluded from Spotlighting?
I think most drives come pre-formatted with a FAT32 filesystem, so unless you re-formatted the drive to HFS+ before using it with your Mac, it's likely the drive isn't even being indexed by Spotlight (and therefore can't be included or excluded from the list).
geekdreams at 2007-11-17 13:02:58 >
# 3 Re: USB hard drive cant be excluded from Spotlighting?
Macs can read and write FAT32 fine.
Squozen at 2007-11-17 13:03:57 >
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