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boots1
Jul 25, 2011Aspirant
Lion breaks Spotlight searching
Since upgrading to Lion, Spotlight refuses to return results for my AFP mounted shares. Pro 6 with 4.2.18. I've been searching around for others reporting this issue but have drawn a blank. Could some...
sphardy1
Jul 25, 2011Apprentice
Just a thought: When you search under SL - do the results appear quickly? Even on a share containing a large quantity of data/files?
The issue I describe - and should have clarified - is that spotlight indexing has been disabled on AFP shares. You can still search from Finder, but without the index the search can take a long, long time - so long it may seem to not be working. It is the ability to index that enables fast searches as now supported with the latest netatalk release included in 4.1.8/4.2.18
The issue I describe - and should have clarified - is that spotlight indexing has been disabled on AFP shares. You can still search from Finder, but without the index the search can take a long, long time - so long it may seem to not be working. It is the ability to index that enables fast searches as now supported with the latest netatalk release included in 4.1.8/4.2.18
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