cannot search for specific files on mounted NAS

[mrgreeneyes]

i used to be able to open a finder window or the NAS drive and l cick on the search field in the window and do a search for a file and it would show me results, not i cannot do that.

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[BrianBaughn]

Check to see if Spotlight indexing is ON for that volume:

How to enable spotlight indexing on a network drive - JONATHANS BLOG

This short blog post will show you how to enable spotlight indexing on a network drive. I have also added the commands to disable spotlight indexing on network drive that’s already indexed. The first thing you have to do is to make sure you connect your network drive to the network. I think...

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[Diskutant]

The NAS needs to support that.

If it's a Synology check if Universal Search is active and it's index is ok.

 

[mrgreeneyes]

The NAS needs to support that.

If it's a Synology check if Universal Search is active and it's index is ok.

it is a synology, and i think i did turn off universal search becasue it was freezing my NAS. i will turn it back on and see if that solves it. thanks

 

[mrgreeneyes]

The NAS needs to support that.

If it's a Synology check if Universal Search is active and it's index is ok.

funny thing is i had universal search running, but it was not indexing anything.