No items match your search windows 8

All these cases involve some type of Windows 7 "homegroup" issue. Try going in from the client PC and right click on the mapped drive. Make sure that "allow files on this drive to have contents indexed The other option that I would check would be: double click the mapped drive, select all folders and then right click on them, click advanced, then make sure that "folder is ready for archiving" is checked and "allow files in this folder to have contents indexed" is checked. I think that these settings are usually set on a per pc basis, not taken from the server's settings.

I got this working at a site I look after, where they have a need to search in specific folders on the network for scanned documents, and to search text within PDF files. Works beautifully. From a collection of about 70, files, they can search almost instantly over the network for filenames and PDF documents containing specific text. Sorry, this doesn't address your exact problems, but hopefully you, or someone, benefits from my efforts.

I emailed someone my results so as to tell them about it and to document it. Now shared here :. This is exactly what I'm looking for!! The Windows Search WSearch service must be running on the remote computer on Windows Server , you can enable the search service by installing the File Services role and then enabling the Windows Search role service within that role.

The shared directory on the remote computer must be included in the indexed scope on the remote computer. Note To provide an optimal experience for remote search, Microsoft recommends that computers running older installed versions of Windows with WDS 2.

For more information concerning support for WDS, see the section titled "Understanding the Windows Search Versions" earlier in this tutorial.

Remote search performed from the local computer uses the Windows Search service on the remote computer to perform the query against the index on the remote computer. Have you tried the exact same search directly on the server? If that doesn't work either, may I suggest forcing a rebuild of the index:.

Steps taken from MS knowledge base. What all descriptions seem to miss, is that even on the client system, given it is running Windows Server and above say as Remote Desktop Server , Windows Search will only work, if the RDS has the File-Services role installed and the Windows Search feature is enabled.

I tried this simple modification and worked like a charm. Got this from some genius named Thekid2point0 on another site:. Under the Folder options go to the Search tab and under how to search check the "Don't use the index when searching in file folders for system files" check box close windows explorer and then reopen and try your search again. This worked for me hopefully this will help someone else out there. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.

Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Windows 7 search not showing results from mapped Server R2 share Ask Question. Asked 10 years, 8 months ago. Active 5 years, 2 months ago. Viewed 33k times. Update: The setup includes two clients Both fully updated Win7 x64 , one file server, no domain. The index has been rebuilt on the server as well as both clients. Update 2: From the client, if I highlight all files in the share, go to properties, and let Win 7 count the files, then proceed to do a search after the counting is complete, it works.

I'm not sure why that worked something to do with rebuilding the index, properly this time? I have a feeling that as the fileserver content changes it wont stay working. Any thoughts? Improve this question. Ricardo Polo Jaramillo 2, 1 1 gold badge 18 18 silver badges 35 35 bronze badges. If so, that is unfortunately not supported, which I had to find out the hard way.

No, the DFS service is not installed. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Eric C. Singer Eric C. Singer 2, 15 15 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges.

After turning that on, mapped folder searching is working. Select the folders you wish to index and Click Ok. The system will index any subfolders beneath them. If you select a whole drive, it will index all folders below the root level. Click Close. The system will take a few minutes to add the new locations you added to its index. If you need to search the entire content of a drive or folder that hasn't been indexed, you must use File Explorer in Windows 8.

Here's how. Upgrade to Microsoft Edge to take advantage of the latest features, security updates, and technical support. Feedback will be sent to Microsoft: By pressing the submit button, your feedback will be used to improve Microsoft products and services. Privacy policy. This occurs even if you include search criteria for items that do match items in your mailbox and Windows Desktop Search WDS is configured to index the Outlook Data.

Additionally, if you view the Indexing Status dialog in Outlook, you receive one of the following messages:. The number of items remaining to be indexed represented by the placeholder in this message never decreases. The Allow service to interact with desktop option is enabled for the Windows Search service.