On our business system we have everyone's "Documents" folder located on our server. The path to that is \\srvr.local\users\Mydocuments$\username\Documents\. I have tried many of the posted solutions in order to get ET to search this folder but to no avail and I could use some help. Here are solutions I've tried unsuccessfully.
1) Run as correct user, not admin (verified not running as admin)
2) Run ET as service (yes, running as a service)
3) Add folder to search in options (when added to the folders tab, no search results show up at all)
Any thoughts on this?
Thanks.
ET won't search Documents folder located on server
Re: ET won't search Documents folder located on server
So if you perform a search of: \\srvr.local
nothing turns up?
Can you open \\srvr.local or \\srvr.local\users\Mydocuments$\username\Documents\ from Window Explorer?
username, I suppose is specific to a user.
So you indexed each users /username/Documents/ individually, or .../Mydocuments$/ to catch them all?
(And in the Index settings, it is set to scan subdirectories?)
nothing turns up?
To clarify, you added your directory as a Folder Index (Tools | Options | Indexes -> Folders)?3) Add folder to search in options
Can you open \\srvr.local or \\srvr.local\users\Mydocuments$\username\Documents\ from Window Explorer?
username, I suppose is specific to a user.
So you indexed each users /username/Documents/ individually, or .../Mydocuments$/ to catch them all?
(And in the Index settings, it is set to scan subdirectories?)
Re: ET won't search Documents folder located on server
Thanks for your prompt feedback and questions for clarification. I verified all the settings again (they were correct). So, uninstalled/reinstalled and re-applied the settings. When I added the folder and hit rescan, I initially saw the same behavior at first and then after several seconds a message in the status bar stated that ET was scanning the folder so I let it go for a while. After about 8 minutes the scan completed and showed the files. I believe the problem was a combination of an ET installation problem and our server is very slow. Thanks for the questions, they helped me get it working.