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How to enable Spotlight indexing on a network drive?
When I try enabling indexing with cifs:// spotlight doesn’t seem to be able to index the drive, even though mdutil states that indexing is enabled. If you have trouble with the index building or not being available, it would be worth trying to enable afp:// mode on your network drive.
How can I rebuild the spotlight Index on my Mac?
If searching your Mac doesn’t return expected results, rebuilding the Spotlight index might help. Choose Apple menu () > System Preferences, then click Spotlight. Click the Privacy tab. Drag the folder or disk that you want to index again to the list of locations that Spotlight is prevented from searching.
How do I Index a folder in Spotlight?
Drag the folder or disk that you want to index again to the list of locations that Spotlight is prevented from searching. Or click the Add (+) button and select the folder or disk to add. To add an item to the Privacy tab, you must have ownership permissions for that item.
How do I remove a folder from spotlight?
From the same list of locations, select the folder or disk that you just added. Then click the Remove (–) button to remove it from the list. Quit System Preferences. Spotlight will reindex the contents of the folder or disk.
Is there a way to rebuild the spotlight index?
With just a few quick steps, you can rebuild your Spotlight index and put your search woes to rest. Spotlight is great for finding stuff on your Mac, and once your learn how to use it, can quickly make short work of any search. But there are a lot of things that can make it go wonky.
Why do I get different results on Spotlight?
You get conflicting data on how much hard drive space is being used and how much is available. When you search for items and you get different results each time, using the same search query. If any or all of these things are happening, then it might be time to dump your old Spotlight index and start fresh.
Which is AFP file server does spotlight index?
Acronis bought GroupLogic who make Extreme-Z IP which is an AFP file server for running on Windows servers. One of the features it provides is built-in Spotlight indexing so it can be searched by Macs.
How does spotlight work on a Mac server?
The way Spotlight works on a Mac server is that – There is a special server process running to do the indexing automatically – normally by monitoring file system changes i.e. modifying a file or creating/deleting files
A possible option would be to have a Mac server and have the Mac server mount the QNAP as a drive, and then have the Mac server re-share the QNAP. Mac clients would then access it via the Mac server. The Mac server would then handle all the user-authentication i.e. logins, and would also do the Spotlight indexing.