| Tip 174 | Hide a File from Spotlight |
You might already know that by opening System Preferences (Apple→System Preferences), clicking the Spotlight tab, and selecting Privacy, you can choose to “hide” folders from Spotlight, which will stop any files within them from appearing in the list of results. Just drag and drop the folders onto the Spotlight window.
What isn’t obvious is that you can drag and drop single files onto this window to hide them from Spotlight’s list of results. While this isn’t an infallible way of stopping others from finding private files (they can simply repeat what you’ve done and see the listing in System Preferences), it’s enough to stop you from being pestered in Spotlight results by files that you’ve archived and want ...
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