Spotlight to index network folders
There may be a solution.
Check this story found on synology forum :
http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=18007&start=0
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Re: Mac OS-X spotlight index of a Synology share?
Postby ColdFire » Thu Oct 21, 2010 9:48 pm
Hey guys,
Late entry from me here...
I just found this while trying to get indexing working via spotlight. I found a couple of people saying to use the: mdutil -i on <volume path> --> to activate the indexing (I ran this under sudo bash)
When I did this nothing seemed to happen other than searching on my NAS stopped working completely! lol
I then ran the second command (not under sudo bash as it gave an error): mdimport -d1 <specific directory of volume to be indexed> --> to force immediate indexing
I had already run mdutil -d before so I got a list of files streaming through terminal and it finally finished after a little while, but a lot quicker than expected considering the amount of data...
I then tried to search again, searched for something I KNEW was on there and it shows 0 results almost instantly... I though screw this and turned indexing off again, did a search and almost instant results!? I tried several searches and they are all almost instant now...
Anyone else got this?
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I tried it and it "works". My indexing is officially disabled, but still I can post searches and get results.
Not all results unfortunately, but maybe indexing takes some time.
Try it and tell me whether you have the same results !
