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dtarin
May 07, 2014Luminary
Indexing contents of ReadyNAS for search?
What are some options for indexing the contents of the ReadyNas to make searches for content much faster? I took a look at the BeeZeet add-on but never got it to work. Also not sure if the web int...
InteXX
Jan 03, 2015Luminary
StephenB wrote: The folks on your how-to thread also say that even with shares mounted from other windows systems they could only get it to work with photos, not with videos or music.
Right... I saw that right after posted. I was hoping you wouldn't catch it, but... you don't miss a trick, do you? ;)
StephenB wrote: You can put get nas shares into your library folders with some effort (though they aren't indexed).
I managed to get that far with mklink, but since my end goal is indexing the shares into search results I ditched the effort when I found that tip.
StephenB wrote: Though I might be ok with that on a desktop, I don't think its the best idea on a laptop or surface. It'd be too easy to put something on the NAS that you'd intended to access locally.
I thought of that when I made my mklink; I put it in an obscure location for that reason. But it didn't work out in the end, so it didn't really matter either way.
Thanks,
Jeff Bowman
Fairbanks, Alaska
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