Does Spotlight work with Time Capsule disks?

[stomer]

I'd be grateful if someone could check to see if they can perform searches of their Time Capsule Airdisks.

I have an AEBSn and I can't for the life of me, get Spotlight to find anything on my airdisks.

 

[HLdan]

Spotlight is designed only to search for other computers data on the network but not the data on a Time Capsule disk. When you use Time Machine spotlight within Time Machine searches the Time Capsule Disk.

 

[stomer]

Spotlight is designed only to search for other computers data on the network but not the data on a Time Capsule disk.

In my experience, Spotlight works with the follow types of shares:

• SMB mounted shares (Windows/Linux/Mac/AEBSn)
• AFP mounted shares (from other Macs)

Spotlight fails to search volumes that are mount using AFP from an AEBSn. I was trying to establish if that's also the case with a Time Capsule. If it isn't the case, then maybe us AEBSn owners can expect an update to fix the problem.

 

[JimmerMac]

Yes it will but you need to make a change in Finder Preferences.
Go into preferences in Finder then advanced, then under "When performing a search", choose "Search current folder" The default is Search this Mac
Now got to your Time Capsule and click on your main Time Capsule folder and search.