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chopin1979

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Original poster
I'm having issues with keyword searches in spotlight.

I have a large collection of images which have keywords added (in Adobe Bridge) to help me search them. This works beautifully on my machine, I simply type a few keywords in and spotlight returns all the images on my machine with those keywords.

However, I recently put the image library onto a shared drive (500gb Time Capsule) so the other two macs in our office could access the images. Now when I do a spotlight search, limited to the Image Library folder on the time capsule, it doesn't work.

I've also tried putting a copy of the image library on another mac, and searching this, with a similar lack of success.

Does anyone know if keyword searches using spotlight are possible on shared computers/drives. And if so... what am I doing wrong?

All macs (one G5, two imacs) concerned are using OS X 10.5.2.
 
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