No search on mapped network folders

mobilelawyer said:

I have three machines running windows 8.1 pro at home. On one machine, search will not work in windows explorer. I had no problem mapping the drives, and the contents show up fine when I browse to individual folders or files. I can access and play media files just fine. But no matter what you type into the search box, nothing is found. Text file, media file, system file: nothing. I am looking at all the folders in explorer, and if one is named "three", I can type three into the box and nothing is highlighted or found. Search works fine for attached drives.

How can I go about diagnosing and resolving this problem?

Thanks in advance.

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mobilelawyer said:

Thanks. I already did that, but consider it a work-around rather than a complete solution. For example, I can create a link to my video library on the desktop and it is, in fact, searchable when opened in explorer.

But a simple link to the mapped folder on the networked drive, opens the folder, and lets me view and/or play or open the files on the drive, but search is inoperable. It works fine on two other machines, which have the same OS and are running the same programs, but not on the subject machine, and, yes, the folders are libraried on the other machines as well, but search works in all respects.

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chev65 said:

mobilelawyer said:

Thanks. I already did that, but consider it a work-around rather than a complete solution. For example, I can create a link to my video library on the desktop and it is, in fact, searchable when opened in explorer.

But a simple link to the mapped folder on the networked drive, opens the folder, and lets me view and/or play or open the files on the drive, but search is inoperable. It works fine on two other machines, which have the same OS and are running the same programs, but not on the subject machine, and, yes, the folders are libraried on the other machines as well, but search works in all respects.

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I see 3 different options in the link but I'm not sure which one you were referring to as the work around?

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