How I can use Spotlight to search a USB flash drive?
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Solution 1
In the shell you could mdimport /Volumes/SomeVolume && mdfind -name 'something' -onlyin /Volumes/SomeVolume/
Solution 2
Go into Finder, open the USB drive you'd like to search by double-clicking its icon in the file browser or clicking it in Finder's sidebar, and hit Command + F
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Comments
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Kamleshwar over 1 year
How I can search anything on a thumb drive using Spotlight?
As soon as I start to search it shows all content of my Mac's hard drive.
I am using Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
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Drejc over 10 yearsDoesn't work for me ... searching for existing files result in empty list