Windows 10: Windows 10 Index a Network Drive

I have a large network attached storage (NAS) drive on my home network.

- I would like my Windows 10 computer to index this drive for fast search results.

- I don't want a solution that replicates the files locally! (Defeats the purpose of having a large NAS!!!)


This need has been around as long as network drives. What is the proper solution? And if none, why not?


Thanks,


Tim

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Excel 2016 and O365 Excel file contents do not index when saving to a network drive

Hello Jon Hof,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

I would suggest you in Rebuilding Windows 10 Indexing Options by following the steps mentioned below:

• Open Indexing Options from
  Control panel.
  
• Click on Modify and put a check mark on the required network drive and press
  OK.
  
• Click on Advanced, select
  File types and select Index Properties and File contents. Click on
  OK.
  

Hope it helps.

Let us know if you got the help you needed by clicking 'Yes or No'.

Mala.S

Microsoft Community – Moderator

 

Indexing Network Drives is not working / Trying to Add Network Drive to Indexing option is not there

Hello,

I am running into an issue with a few of our windows 10 computers. When they are trying to search a network drive, the search take a very long time (some times does not even search) to search and even if it does search, it is not getting everything I need.
I can be in the directory of where the file is and search for it and it will take 10-15 minutes before it shows me the result. It will take twice as long if I enable content searching (which I understand takes longer but 20-30 minutes it a very long time).

• I have tried reindexing. This however only does the C drive and not the network drives. When I want to add the network drives, I am not getting an option to add them. I am not even able to select the computer in Network.
• I have tried running a system file repair in cmd. Comes back with no issues.
• I have tried running a system health restore in cmd. Everything is okay there.
• I have reset the WinCatalog through cmd. Still having issues.
• I right clicked on the network drive and made sure that "Allow this drive to be index" was check. I even unchecked it and recheck it so it will apply to everything.
• I right clicked on the network drive and check "Allow Available Offline" and let that go through its process.
• I stopped the Windows Search service, started it, made sure that it was set to auto and even restarted it. Still having the issue

I have tried these steps at least twice now and after each step, I would reboot the computer.

Is there anything else that I can do to get the search in network drive function to work properly again. Or is there a way that I can add the network drives to the indexing. I have tried third party programs that will search for files but the main thing
we need is the content search. I know content search takes awhile to run but on windows 7 computers, it only takes like 3 minutes to search and find the file with the content in it.

 

Search Not Indexing Optical Drive

Thanks,

• When you mentioned D Drive, are you pertaining to a partition or a separate external drive? - D Drive = Solid State Drive; 1 of 2 internal drives (the other being an optical drive);
• Were you able to check if indexing was already completed? - Indexing completed on each attempt of rectification;
  
• In the meantime, we suggest that you run the Search and Indexing troubleshooter - Done prior to posting; useless! It does not find any problems.