Not content indexing on network location
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nickchackett
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Not content indexing on network location
I have network locations that I have indexed with normal search that works great, and there is a specific subfolder that I have content indexed for the normal extensions minus .pdf files and plus Excel files. However, it doesn't actually search the content of this folder unless I use noteindexed:content: in which case it will slowly query and eventually populate results. Also, if I open a spreadsheet in excel, and that spreadsheet contains the search term I used, it will pop up in the search results using the normal content: method after it opens. I don't think it's a memory issue since the folder is less than a GB after excluding PDFs and I have 64GB memory.
Re: Not content indexing on network location
Is Everything still content indexing? (shown in the status bar on the right)
-It will take a very long time for Everything to index all your content.
Maybe Everything missed content indexing your network location?
-Please try forcing a content index refresh:
Search for your network location, eg: or
Select all files and press Ctrl + F5.
If Everything is still not content indexing your network files, please send your Help -> Troubleshooting information.
-It will take a very long time for Everything to index all your content.
Maybe Everything missed content indexing your network location?
-Please try forcing a content index refresh:
Search for your network location, eg:
\\server\share\j:\Select all files and press Ctrl + F5.
If Everything is still not content indexing your network files, please send your Help -> Troubleshooting information.
Re: Not content indexing on network location
I'm having the same issue. I have a network drive M:\ which is indexed and working perfectly when I search by filename. However, even with the folder setup in the content indexing, and refreshing it multiple times, trying both M:\ and \\server\share\ format, nothing gets it to work. It just always returns no results from the network location when searching by "content:alter *.sql" which should have numerous results.
Actually looking a little closer the behavior is weirdly inconsistent. I have the following setup in my Options under Content:
Include only folders: E:\; M:\folder1\folder2
Include only files: *.linq;*.cs;*.txt; *.sql
[ ] Exclude not content indexed (not checked)
[x] Exclude recall on data access (checked)
Maximum size: 0 MB
I just noticed that when I search for Content filter on M:\ drive, it is working for *.txt and *.linq files, but NOT *.sql files.
Interestingly I realized I had a space between the "*.txt;" and "*.sql" and wondered if perhaps that was being part of the filename match. I removed that extra space between the extensions and now it is working! I suppose that is very unexpected behavior and spaces should be trimmed/ignored between items.
Actually looking a little closer the behavior is weirdly inconsistent. I have the following setup in my Options under Content:
Include only folders: E:\; M:\folder1\folder2
Include only files: *.linq;*.cs;*.txt; *.sql
[ ] Exclude not content indexed (not checked)
[x] Exclude recall on data access (checked)
Maximum size: 0 MB
I just noticed that when I search for Content filter on M:\ drive, it is working for *.txt and *.linq files, but NOT *.sql files.
Interestingly I realized I had a space between the "*.txt;" and "*.sql" and wondered if perhaps that was being part of the filename match. I removed that extra space between the extensions and now it is working! I suppose that is very unexpected behavior and spaces should be trimmed/ignored between items.