I haven't indexed the location and don't want to as it's a network drive and is rather large and I rarely search it so all I want Windows Search to do is trawl through the files in that location and tell me when it finds one that matches my search criteria. I don't care how long it takes, I just want it to work reliably otherwise I can't use it at all Any ideas as to why it can't find the file? Or alternatively can someone tell me what happened to the Search Companion?
It was very good at doing this simple task Was this reply helpful? Thank you for your understanding. You can search using Windows Explorer opened to the network drive. Click on the drive in Windows Explorer and in the Search box at the top and type in your query. Also you can use Microsoft Search Server Express. This provides a webpage interface and allows you to index multiple drives. Hi SJMP,. Did you try the suggestion of Kubilay Elmas?
Please give we any update if you have done. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation. So the library thing wont work since it will not be indexed. Than your problem seems to be somewhere else Like user rights, security firewall , network related blocekd ports or sharing settings Check your "Indexing Optitons" from the control panel.
Then click on "Advanced" button and click on the "Rebuild" button in order to restart the indexing You should try that on the server first and then on your clients Give a litte time to your servers and machine to re-index all of your stuff. As this thread has been quiet for a while, we assume that the issue has been resolved. If the issue still persists, please feel free to reply this post directly so we will be notified to follow it up.
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These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. Another tool that can search local drives of all your workstations for a specific file — action1. Another tool for searching LAN or shared drives is searchblox. Just install the windows exe version and index your local files. Hi, I am the developer of Lanhunt, just found your link on Google, and it feels good to read it.
Thanks a lot. Great tips! Peter Barnett 4 years ago. Dilip 6 years ago. Eyasu 7 years ago. Sanjay Verma 8 years ago.
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