It's frowned on in general, not solely by me.ĪPFS is the local filesystem, so that has zero bearing on your question. Not sarcastic, just pointing out that from here, it looks like you jumped in with your question, necro-posting and not having read the whole thread (which has only just reached a 2nd page, so it's not even all that long). Not sure the sarcastic "Sorry but did you actually read the whole thread ?" was really needed but thanks anyway! Thanks - yes I did read the whole thread, a lot can change in a year and with the new MacOS being on APFS and the fact they no long support sharing from this new OS over AFP i wasn't sure if anything might have changed. Synology has some kind of search utility offered with/for some of their products, but I haven't worked with it as of yet. It's not something that Apple can "just" fix on their own. Without vs_fruit performance will not be comparable, and searching via Spotlight will be problematic at best.Ībsent other vendors suddenly supporting the custom calls that Spotlight makes, the answer to your question is quite probably, no. Microsoft is extremely unlikely to ever bring that in to their implementation (which is of course SMB/CIFS rather than Samba). Samba (4.2 and later) recently added that in, via vs_fruit Here's the thing: Apple extended the SMB protocol in their implementation to support metadata lookup - technically this is allowed. Double-negative necro-posting finger-wag for you ! 8-D Sorry, but it looks like you posted without actually reading the whole thread. Sorry to bring up my old thread again, does anyone know if this is sorted with MacOS High Sierra - can you now index and search SMB shares? With 40,000 Macs at my last job we didn't have an issue with AFP shares. I have never seen a resolution to this but our experience is the opposite to yours, terrible issues with SMB because OS X and Windows SMB struggle to co-operate, installing Acronis resolves this but you are left with potential issues with Adobe. They only support copying to local drive and editing then copying back SMB seems to be the only way to get around this other issue and since moving to SMB the Adobe issue has gone but we now have this searching issueĪdobe does not support opening saving files from ANY type of share AFP or SMB. Adobe wouldn't help because we were using network shares to save files which Adobe apparently don't support We all know our Macs have hidden files.nWe just have to know where to look.nSpotlight refuses to reveal the hidden files invisible to the Finder,nor tucked away inside application bundles.nEasyFind makes finding hidden files easy.nNo need to display invisible files in the Finder first,nor show the contents of application bundles or packages.Īs a power user, one of my chief frustrations with Spotlight is its inability to look inside my Library or System folders.nIf I am modifying a system resource or adjusting a local preference,nmy activities often take me outside the view of Spotlight’s search.nEasyFind does not suffer from such shortsightedness.nIts powerful search finds file and folders, by name, phrase, or content no matter where they are located.nIt even follows Unix-Wildcards, and can exclude known file types.ĮasyFind is the little squirrel I keep in my dock for finding stuff on my Mac.nFree from the Mac App Store,nor the Devon Technologies website.We used to use that but encountered a bug with Adobe and AFP shares - the fix was to move to SMB shares. The option to search anywhere, including my Library and System foldersĮasyFind’s results are so fast on my MacBook Air, I often question the need for Spotlight to keep an index of my hard drive.nMaybe its because I rarely search my files by content.nOr maybe it is because of my MacBook Air’s super-fast SSD.nNo matter the reason, EasyFind’s search results often start appearing in less than a second.īrowsing EasyFind’s results is simple too.nQuick Look long replaced Preview as my preferred way of previewing files,nand Quick Look is built into every EasyFind search.nSimply highlight the first result, tap the Spacebar, and navigate down the list using the arrow keys.nA full-screen preview appears with every key stroke.The ability to search invisible files, and the contents of application bundles.Its fast results and Quick Look integration. Before Spotlight there was Sherlock.nAnd before Sherlock there was the Find.nWe have come a long way since the search in System 7.nContent awareness, deep indexes, and live results have made modern search powerful.nBut sometimes I wish I could return to a simpler search.nWhere the indexing every file isn’t required, and I can see the results from every folder on my hard drive.nEasyFind is powerful search made easy.
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