Indexing network share locations

Hello Ktulu05

To index a network folder or drive, you must right-click on it first and select "Always Available offline".

Then it can be indexed, and added to libraries as well.

Simply right-click a folder, click "always available offline" and after sync finishes (or meanwhile) you can add it to the Libraries, no need to tamper with indexing options.

Hope it helps

Hi ktulu05, and welcome to the Seven Forums,

The way I understand things with the library in the Beta of Windows 7 at present only those files indexed with MS's Search 4.0 will show as "indexed". This is available for XP, Vista, and Server 2003. I am certain that as windows 7 approaches release other systems will provide the correct indexing, but at the moment I am unaware of a workaround, (of course if anyone does know please post back)

limneos said:

Hello Ktulu05

To index a network folder or drive, you must right-click on it first and select "Always Available offline".

Then it can be indexed, and added to libraries as well.

Simply right-click a folder, click "always available offline" and after sync finishes (or meanwhile) you can add it to the Libraries, no need to tamper with indexing options.

Hope it helps

Hmm...then again, you might not want to synchronize the whole contents of your network files , otherwise you could just copy them locally

Another workaround is to simply index the network files...To do that, I found there's a patch that M$ has released for Windows Vista that does this and works for Windows 7 too.

However, I even found another easier how-to:

To add a non-indexed UNC as a library to Windows 7 Beta:

1. Create a folder on your hard drive for shares. i.e. c:\share
2. Create another folder in the above share. i.e. c:\share\music
2. Link the Library to this folder.
3. Delete the folder.
4. Use the mklink in an elevated command prompt to make a symbolic link. Name the link the same as the folder you created above.
i.e - mklink /d c:\share\music \\server\music
5. Done. Now you have non-indexed UNC path as a library.

Hope it helps even better

Limneos posted a solution...

1. Create a folder on your hard drive for shares. i.e. c:\share
2. Create another folder in the above share. i.e. c:\share\music
2. Link the Library to this folder.
3. Delete the folder.
4. Use the mklink in an elevated command prompt to make a symbolic link. Name the link the same as the folder you created above.
i.e - mklink /d c:\share\music \\server\music
5. Done. Now you have non-indexed UNC path as a library.

... and it works, but there are problems. Try double clicking on a phto stored in Pictures behind one of these symlinks and it will open in Windows Photo Viewer. Then click the print button. You'll get the message: 'Windows cannot find this picture. Check the location, and then try again.'

Copying the picture to the desktop, and repeating the print works normally.

zigzag3143 said:

Edform

Hi and welcome to sevenforums

Limneos post is two away in the same thread. Did you miss that? btw you clipped the color tags as well. If you want you can go and edit the post. Just a heads up

Again welcome to SF

Ken

I'm not sure why you told me these things; I quoted the Limneos post!

I tried to use the quote button but it didn't include the quote that Limneos gave, and that was what I wanted to comment on, so I just used cut and paste and trimmed out the HTML.

I've just realised that my post didn't give the right information, so I'd better explain again.

If you use the method Limneos posted to link a photos folder on a Samba share to a Windows 7 library, in a situation where your photos folder is actually inside an already linked documents folder, the Windows 7 photo viewer software displays photos, but can't print them.

If you move your photos folder so that it is not contained within your documents folder, the Windows 7 photo viewer can print photos perfectly.

So I suppose the rule is, don't use the symlinks process to link a folder within an already linked folder or you will have problems.