Spotlight forgets privacy

KenDRhyD

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I have two external drives which I do not wish Spotlight to index. I add both drives to the privacy list in the system preference panel, but every time I reboot (usually for a system update), Spotlight ties up my computer for several hours indexing these two drives again!!!!!!

How do I convince Spotlight to honour the privacy settings on a clean reboot?

Is this some sort of timing issue where the external drives may not be ready when Spotlight starts, so it removes them from the list, and later when they are ready Spotlight notices them and processes them?

Frustrating.
 
I have even attempted the mechanism I located that indicated the following command should work -- it does for the first external drive, but not the second!
Code:
sudo defaults write /Volumes/History/.Spotlight-V100/_IndexPolicy Policy -int 3
 
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