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Windows indexing service: how do I make it so network shares can be searched?

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Mar 15, 202617497 views

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I have a bunch of folders on a network share with thousands of files in them (application logfiles). I would like to be able to search these by filename quickly and eventually programmatically (perhaps via MSIDXS). The problem is that I can't seem to add network shares to the indexing service. When…

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There's simply no way to index non-Windows network drives on a 64-bit Win 7/8, with Windows itself. Other desktop search apps can do it, like Archivarius.

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Windows indexing service: how do I make it so network shares can be searched?

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