Apple - How can I stop Parallels Desktop from listing Apps from a VM available in Spotlight?

I just figured it out after searching the sources below.

  • System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy
  • Drag your "Applications (Parallels)" folder onto the "Privacy" tab
    • I also added the folder with my Parallels VM (called "Parallels" in screenshot below) just to be sure I wasn't indexing any Parallel's info
  • Exiting System Preferences will rebuild the Spotlight index without Parallel's apps

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Note: If you have Alfred installed, go to Alfred Preferences > Advanced > Clear Application Cache

Sources

  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeGQeTrAcn8

  2. http://www.zenandmac.com/2013/06/03/how-to-prevent-parallels-applications-from-appearing-in-alfred-search-results/

  3. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716

This worked for me

Mac OS 10.14.5

Parallels Desktop 14 Business Edition version 14.0.1

You have to select Settings of the VM desired. Select Options -> Applications and Uncheck "Share Windows applications with MAC" enter image description here

Then click Disable enter image description here

This method worked for me and now when I search something in Spotlight I don't see any results from my Virtual Machine.

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Spotlight

Parallels Desktop

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