How exactly would Qsirch help Spotlight find files?
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Re: How exactly would Qsirch help Spotlight find files?
Spotlight definitely doesn't work with QSirch indizes. I tried everything possible, different network protocols, different MacOS versions, reinstalling QSirch ... TS-431X2 (8 GB) and TS-832X (8 GB) ... searching from the Finder results in a recursive "manual" search through all folders which needs some time on well filled volumes.
Use AFP connection instead of SMB and the MacOS apps FindAnyFile or EasyFind to search very fast for filenames and folders, but not for contents. These utilities use the filesystem index which is part of the AFP system which still works fine. As SMB doesn't offer this service both utilities fall back to recursive search like the MacOS Finder.
Searching for file contents is only possible by QSirch.
Use AFP connection instead of SMB and the MacOS apps FindAnyFile or EasyFind to search very fast for filenames and folders, but not for contents. These utilities use the filesystem index which is part of the AFP system which still works fine. As SMB doesn't offer this service both utilities fall back to recursive search like the MacOS Finder.
Searching for file contents is only possible by QSirch.
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Re: How exactly would Qsirch help Spotlight find files?
If Qsirch is built on ElasticSearch, then it will not be supported until Samba 4.12 (QNAP 4.4.1 is built with Samba 4.7
https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-t ... 34857.html
https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-t ... 34857.html
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Re: How exactly would Qsirch help Spotlight find files?
Yes, this is a great workaround. I guess this doesnt even use Qsirch either! thanksAustro-Diesel wrote: ↑Sun Mar 08, 2020 11:24 pm Use AFP connection instead of SMB and the MacOS apps FindAnyFile or EasyFind to search very fast for filenames and folders, but not for contents. These utilities use the filesystem index which is part of the AFP system which still works fine.
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Re: How exactly would Qsirch help Spotlight find files?
Is this problem resolved already? Does Qsirch work with Spotlight now?
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Re: How exactly would Qsirch help Spotlight find files?
Nope. Searching from the Finder comes up blank for all searches. Not even working for filenames.
I have added "EasyFind" to the Finder ToolBar, but I have to remember to click it and search in the app, rather than use the Finder search box.
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Re: How exactly would Qsirch help Spotlight find files?
Following up on this post, I did further investigations to see what is happening on my Mac. Following suggestions at https://care.qumulo.com/hc/en-us/articl ... and-Qumulo I ran:
one of the results of that search is a folder called afp...[user]@QNAP.local(AFP)._afpovp.local%2[share-name]
This shows that Spotlight IS indexing the shared drive. This is confirmed by running
and running the following command results in lots of wifi activity as my laptop has mdworker scanning the files to build the spotlight index:
Despite all this network activity, and the presence of a spotlight index in that hidden folder, the Finder STILL FINDS NOTHING. Not even a file name present in the folder I am currently looking at. Its totally broken.
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#ls -la /private/var/db/Spotlight-V100/Volumes/
This shows that Spotlight IS indexing the shared drive. This is confirmed by running
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sudo mdutil -s /Volumes/volume_name
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sudo mdutil -E -i off /Volumes/volume_name && sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/volume_name
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Re: How exactly would Qsirch help Spotlight find files?
More searching - it turns out that AFP (apple file shareing) on QNAP is provided by netatalk, which supports Spotlight as of version 3.1, but it needs support from other software (dbus and Gnome tracker) which is missing from the NAS OS. Checking afpd -v on the QNAP confirms that spotlight is NOT supported:
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# afpd -V
afpd 3.1.9.q1 - Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) daemon of Netatalk
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version. Please see the file COPYING for further information and details.
afpd has been compiled with support for these features:
AFP versions: 2.2 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4
CNID backends: cdb dbd last tdb
Zeroconf support: No
TCP wrappers support: No
Quota support: Yes
Admin group support: Yes
Valid shell checks: Yes
cracklib support: No
EA support: ad | sys
ACL support: Yes
LDAP support: Yes
D-Bus support: No
Spotlight support: No
DTrace probes: No
afp.conf: /usr/local/etc/afp.conf
extmap.conf: /usr/local/etc/extmap.conf
state directory: /var/netatalk/
afp_signature.conf: /var/netatalk/afp_signature.conf
afp_voluuid.conf: /var/netatalk/afp_voluuid.conf
UAM search path: /root/daily_build/64_40/4.4.2/Model/TS-X51/build/RootFS/usr/local/etc/netatalk/uams//
Server messages path: /var/netatalk/msg/
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Re: How exactly would Qsirch help Spotlight find files?
I feel like Qsirch is working with my Finder now. Cause Finder really finds file name in seconds. I got 40K files in total 600G on the nas. But after all these with Qnap, I've decided to go Synology. Setting up Spotlight indexing on a Synology nas is within a minute and start to working as the indexing done.
I just have both a Qnap and a Synology nas. The Qnap one is running backup tasks only now. It was my first nas and did all the tasks. But Qnap just waste my time with their really poor response to customer. I don't like to spend more time with it.
I just have both a Qnap and a Synology nas. The Qnap one is running backup tasks only now. It was my first nas and did all the tasks. But Qnap just waste my time with their really poor response to customer. I don't like to spend more time with it.
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Re: How exactly would Qsirch help Spotlight find files?
How did you get it working then?
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Re: How exactly would Qsirch help Spotlight find files?
seems like someone got it working:
viewtopic.php?f=361&t=153194&p=751871&h ... ht#p751871
shame our threads didnt find each other!
viewtopic.php?f=361&t=153194&p=751871&h ... ht#p751871
shame our threads didnt find each other!
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Re: How exactly would Qsirch help Spotlight find files?
I still can't get this to work - i'm running QuTS Hero if that makes any difference (probably as half the usual feature from QTS seem to be missing)
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Re: How exactly would Qsirch help Spotlight find files?
I never found out how to get this working. No one has been able to confirm how to get QSIRCH working with the Mac Finder.
ANyone?
ANyone?
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Re: How exactly would Qsirch help Spotlight find files?
Spotlight does technically work for searching in the Finder, its just amazingly slow. A search on my NAS folder containing music for the word "dylan" comes up with 100 hits, which are a mix of files/folders matching the name and also tracks with ID tags containing the name. Only issue is that it takes about 20 seconds to return the results.
Oh, and I just looked back at the finder window and after typing the above its updated and now saying 300 results... which is probably more complete but I guess its hit a maximum for the results. I guess that took a full minute to return.
I tried again with a search for the word "homesick" and that took about 50 seconds and returned 4 items, 3 with it in the name and one from the file contents.
So, in summary - yes it works, but you are probably not patient enough to wait for the results. Its NOT the spotlight experience we are used to!!
Oh, and I just looked back at the finder window and after typing the above its updated and now saying 300 results... which is probably more complete but I guess its hit a maximum for the results. I guess that took a full minute to return.
I tried again with a search for the word "homesick" and that took about 50 seconds and returned 4 items, 3 with it in the name and one from the file contents.
So, in summary - yes it works, but you are probably not patient enough to wait for the results. Its NOT the spotlight experience we are used to!!
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Re: How exactly would Qsirch help Spotlight find files?
Does QSirch work with AFP shares? I'm dealing with the dreaded watchdog kernel panics when SMB shares are left connected and the display turns off, so I've had to switch to AFP until this issue is resolved.