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I have Synology's Universal Search indexing enabled on a bunch of my NAS folders, and a Finder search with " Shared" (instead of "This Mac") selected shows me every file in my multi-terabyte archive that contains my search string in the contents, and it shows them reasonably fast it loads a few hundred to start, then loads 50 more results every few seconds until finished.
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However, opening a Finder window and using that search bar gets you the full power of both Spotlight's index and the indexes on network volumes. The main ⌘ SPACE Spotlight search only shows files from your computer (and dictionary entries, contacts, websites, etc), and even then it doesn't seem to search the contents of all files. What I have just figured out about searching network volumes is that Spotlight search and the Finder search field are not the same, and the Finder search is better - for this use case, anyway. Results can be viewed on remote client systems, copiedīack to your administrator system, or deleted. Viewĭetails on results, or refine searches even further using additional Summary results forĮach client are updated instantly as results are returned. Lightning-fast searches on remote client systems. Spotlight capability in Apple Remote Desktop can perform Leveraging the revolutionary Spotlight technology in OS X, the Remote
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However, this a separate app and it does not integrate the remote index with local Spotlight searches. Apple Remote Desktop is not free, but can be purchased through the Mac App Store ($79.99).
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There is one officially supported way to query remote Spotlight indexes, by using the Apple Remote Desktop application. However, for me this does not seem to work, and it doesn't show remote search results anywhere when using SMB network mounts (This is in macOS Sierra). This option requests that a local caches be flushed to the It looks like mdutil can see that server search is enabled: $ sudo mdutil -s /Volumes/YourNetworkDriveĪlso the mdutil manpage has this information for the -p option: -p Spotlight caches indexes of some network devices locally.
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