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When I connect a USB drive, it shows up on my desktop, but Finder won't find anything on it because it doesn't get indexed.
I'm running OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a) on an iMac G5 with a PowerPC G5 (3.0) processor.
The drive in question is NTFS, but it also seems like the Mac doesn't index FAT-formatted USB drives if they were formatted on a PC.
Is there any way that automatic indexing could have been turned off? I think the department that had this system before we got it would have turned that off if possible, and I'd like to find out how to turn it back on

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Check in System Preferences/Spotlight/Privacy if external drives have been excluded from a search.

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