Hi all,
Today I am going to explain the most common issue of windows search not working on mapped network drive.
If you have to deal with lots of documents or folders located on other computer and you have created a mapped network drive then mostly this problem occurs that you will not find any file or folder in the search function.
Well to solve this problem you simply have to remove indexing from the computer that have data located.
For those who don't know how to remove or edit indexing options, can follow the steps below,
1. Go to Control Panel and select view large icons under view by on top left corner
2. Now Select "Indexing Options" from the list,
3. Now Click on "Modify"
4. Now remove tick mark from the every drive icons, also remove tick mark from the other folders also.
5. Now click on OK and restart your computer.
That's all now try to search from the network drive your search function will work.
The exact problem is with Window's indexing option.
For example in my case, we have to scan all of our customer's files on a folder located on central computer and every employee of our company use it with mapped network drive. So if indexing options is on for that folder on central computer then what is happen that as new files added every minute, the computer tries to index each and every files added by the moment. During this indexing process (which is happening in the background of course!) other users will get no files found error. When all indexing process finishes then only other users can able to do find any files, but as indexing finished new files put in the folder and again indexing starts. :P
So the main idea is to stop the central computer from doing "Indexing exercise" :)
This will not affect very much, the search on central computer user. But it will be great help for the mapped network drive users.
I've searched a lot for this problem but finally this is the only solution I've managed to get rid of this problem.
Please share your solution if you find any.
Update : Well now you can solve the search problem by installing a tiny and free software called "Everything".
You can download it from Here (www.voidtools.com)
More information on how to configure it properly can be found by visiting the link below,
How to configure "Everything" app
Don't forget to comment if you find this information useful.
Cheers!!!
Today I am going to explain the most common issue of windows search not working on mapped network drive.
If you have to deal with lots of documents or folders located on other computer and you have created a mapped network drive then mostly this problem occurs that you will not find any file or folder in the search function.
Well to solve this problem you simply have to remove indexing from the computer that have data located.
For those who don't know how to remove or edit indexing options, can follow the steps below,
1. Go to Control Panel and select view large icons under view by on top left corner
2. Now Select "Indexing Options" from the list,
3. Now Click on "Modify"
4. Now remove tick mark from the every drive icons, also remove tick mark from the other folders also.
5. Now click on OK and restart your computer.
That's all now try to search from the network drive your search function will work.
The exact problem is with Window's indexing option.
For example in my case, we have to scan all of our customer's files on a folder located on central computer and every employee of our company use it with mapped network drive. So if indexing options is on for that folder on central computer then what is happen that as new files added every minute, the computer tries to index each and every files added by the moment. During this indexing process (which is happening in the background of course!) other users will get no files found error. When all indexing process finishes then only other users can able to do find any files, but as indexing finished new files put in the folder and again indexing starts. :P
So the main idea is to stop the central computer from doing "Indexing exercise" :)
This will not affect very much, the search on central computer user. But it will be great help for the mapped network drive users.
I've searched a lot for this problem but finally this is the only solution I've managed to get rid of this problem.
Please share your solution if you find any.
Update : Well now you can solve the search problem by installing a tiny and free software called "Everything".
You can download it from Here (www.voidtools.com)
More information on how to configure it properly can be found by visiting the link below,
How to configure "Everything" app
Don't forget to comment if you find this information useful.
Cheers!!!
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