Safari history in Spotlight

Douglas Hill • 28 January 2012

For some reason, there isn’t an option to not show Safari history in Spotlight results. (Bookmarks can be turned off.) I worked around this by adding ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari/History/ to the exclusion list in the Privacy tab of Spotlight preferences.

Screen shot of System Preferences window, showing a ‘History’ folder added in the Privacy tab.