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nicke93376392
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September 12, 2017
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Searching NAS drives in Bridge

  • September 12, 2017
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We recently purchased a Synology RS815+ NAS for use by our Creative team running Mac OS X.  We set up indexing on the NAS and the OS X clients are able to search for and find files on the NAS with no problems.

With Bridge, however, it's a different story.  Bridge doesn't bring up any search results unless you first use Bridge to go into the directory containing the file you are searching for.  If you reboot the Mac it resets everything so that it again brings up no search results, even for files it found before the reboot, until you again manually browse the parent folder in Bridge. 

Does anybody know how to successfully search a NAS drive using Bridge?

Many thanks,

Nick

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      Correct answer coldjtf

      Click the eyeglass icon in the search bar on Bridge and in the drop down menu select 'Spotlight search'.

      It will then use the spotlight database and not use Bridge search.

      One question - could you outline your setup?

      I currently have a RAID in a MacPro Tower and the Mac's Bridge search that over the network and this works fine, however I want to move to a modern Synology NAS.

      But how did you get spotlight to work reliably on the NAS? I've heard that no NAS actually supports spotlight natively and a load of unreliable terminal hacks are required to get spotlight to index a remote volume.

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      Andrea267606568kys
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      November 15, 2022

      Hi everyone! It happened the same to me and it drove me nuts. How it was solved: in Bridge, on the stubborn NAS folder, right click>show in Bridge. Voilà! Unlocked. 

      I did it in Windows but I guess it works on Mac too. 

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      bluebradCommunity Expert
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      February 29, 2024

      its not that it will not show the folder its that it is slow or will not show the nas at all. a system reboot will most of the time fix it but if bridge has a hickup it looses question.

      Illustrator is open almost 24/7 and just about the same for Bridge and Photoshop
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      coldjtfCorrect answer
      Inspiring
      August 10, 2018

      Click the eyeglass icon in the search bar on Bridge and in the drop down menu select 'Spotlight search'.

      It will then use the spotlight database and not use Bridge search.

      One question - could you outline your setup?

      I currently have a RAID in a MacPro Tower and the Mac's Bridge search that over the network and this works fine, however I want to move to a modern Synology NAS.

      But how did you get spotlight to work reliably on the NAS? I've heard that no NAS actually supports spotlight natively and a load of unreliable terminal hacks are required to get spotlight to index a remote volume.

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        bluebradCommunity Expert
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        July 19, 2020

        i talked to a tech and they say they're not supporting NAS (WTF) all my clients and other partner business all run on NAS setups

         

        Illustrator is open almost 24/7 and just about the same for Bridge and Photoshop
          Abambo
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          AbamboCommunity Expert
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          September 12, 2017

          My experience is that searching in Bridge is much slower then searching in the OS. But searching with Bridge works. So I use Bridge only when looking for exif entries and likes. I'm using Windows and Windows servers, but the principal should be the same.

          ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
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          nicke93376392Author
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          September 12, 2017

          Thanks for the reply.  They are able to search for the files using OS X Finder but our Creative team need to use Bridge for their searching.  I'm not exactly sure about the reasons why as I don't use Adobe CC myself but I know that it saves them lots of time if they are able to.

          I think it's going to be a Bridge / Apple Mac specific problem to do with the way that Bridge caches search results when the files live on a network drive.

          Abambo
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          AbamboCommunity Expert
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          September 12, 2017

          The problem with Bridge is, that it uses its own index as there are rather useful additional information stored on an image file, information that the OS is not aware of. I never investigated into a multi user search procedure, so I can't help with that.

          May be you find more information here: How to view & manage files in Adobe Bridge

          Jump to the search section.

          ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
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