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VFRulez

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Original poster
Jun 14, 2013
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How can I make OSX index a network share for spotlight?

I am using a QNAP NAS with SMB network shares, which I mount with OS X Mavericks. They are not searchable, as far as I know because of the indexing of network share is by default not activated.

To force the OS to index them I activated this via "mdutils". But this is no solutions. This makes spotlight to index the share once. But I want spotlight to index it always and keep it up to date. I have a huge amount of documents & fotographs, which is very difficult to manage without being searchable.

Unfortunately the only solution I found in the www was the "mdutils"-way, which seems not to work, maybe only works not for me.


I would appreciate any assistance,



Thank you,

Stefan
 
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