How I can use Spotlight to search a USB flash drive?

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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.

Kamleshwar

Posted 2011-09-08T13:01:54.337

Reputation: 141

Answers

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In the shell you could mdimport /Volumes/SomeVolume && mdfind -name 'something' -onlyin /Volumes/SomeVolume/

Lri

Posted 2011-09-08T13:01:54.337

Reputation: 34 501

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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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edude05

Posted 2011-09-08T13:01:54.337

Reputation: 149

Doesn't work for me ... searching for existing files result in empty list – Drejc – 2013-11-20T14:50:54.690

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