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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...
rcarr6502
Aug 03, 2011Tutor
I typically use EasyFind (http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/freeware/) to perform searches against my NAS. There've been other threads in this forum on it (and other spotlight alternatives).
EasyFind's searches aren't instantaneous like Spotlight (because there's no index to search), but EasyFind is still very fast. I've never had a search take 1/2 hour. I think the longest a search has taken was a minute or two.
EasyFind's searches aren't instantaneous like Spotlight (because there's no index to search), but EasyFind is still very fast. I've never had a search take 1/2 hour. I think the longest a search has taken was a minute or two.
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