Vista indexing mapped drives

[AATech]

Hi,

I am trying to add a network share to the locations that are indexed. i
click 'Modify' and the 'Indexed Locations' window pops up, but at the
bottom, 'show all locations' is greyed out. How can i index mapped drives?

Thanks,
Al

 

[+Bob+]

Hi,

I am trying to add a network share to the locations that are indexed. i
click 'Modify' and the 'Indexed Locations' window pops up, but at the
bottom, 'show all locations' is greyed out. How can i index mapped drives?

Thanks,
Al

I don't think you can, that's probably why it's grayed out. Even if
you can, it's a bad idea with Vista's sub-standard network
performance. DO you search the network drives that often for
content... as in "repeatedly, every day"? If not, another search tool
would be more efficient.

 

[AATech]

I do search the contents of that drive several times throughout each day

 

[+Bob+]

I do search the contents of that drive several times throughout each day

I don't think Windows will index it. I'd suggest you install Agent
Ransack and use that. AR is fast enough for most of us even without
indexing:

http://www.mythicsoft.com/page.aspx?page=download&type=agentransack


These was a trick you used to be able to do with XP: if you moved your
"documents" folder to a network drive, XP would start to consider that
drive "a local hard drive". It was actually more annoying than helpful
for me, but it worked. Whether or not that works with Vista I can't
say. Be aware that it had side effects... for example, if the network
drive was no available when you logged on, programs that looked for
"documents" as a default location got really annoyed on Open/Save
operations. At your own risk, YMMV.