Does Spotlight search folders other than your home directory?

Question

macOS

Actually, the question is: does Spotlight look for files in system directories, such as "System" or "Libraries"? Judging by the issue, in addition to the home folder, a search is carried out in the "Shared Access" folder, but I don't know about others. Who knows anything about this? And if he is looking for, then in which ones, so that they can be excluded.

Answer 1

spotlight indexes all disks. does not touch system folders, with the exception of some.
you can exclude any drive/folder from the search - system preferences -> spotlight -> privacy.