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Offline BrendanRead

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Searching for keywords on a server
« on: August 18, 2015, 06:23:20 PM »
Hi there,
I have been using PM for many years but I don't take advantage of its Search function.
Today I thought I would give it a go.
It seems PM will search images on my local computer fine but most of my images reside on a QNAP RAID based server. It doesn't seem to be able to search on any of the images on that QNAP server. Is that normal or am I doing something incorrectly? Do you have a workflow document that I can read about keywords and searching best practice?

I am running PM Version 5.0 Build 16438 [e61be25] on a Mac OS X [10.7.5] connect to the QNAP via ethernet cable to a HP Switch

Cheers
Brendan
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Re: Searching for keywords on a server
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2015, 11:04:10 PM »
Brendan,

I have been using PM for many years but I don't take advantage of its Search function.
Today I thought I would give it a go.
It seems PM will search images on my local computer fine but most of my images reside on a QNAP RAID based server. It doesn't seem to be able to search on any of the images on that QNAP server. Is that normal or am I doing something incorrectly? Do you have a workflow document that I can read about keywords and searching best practice?

This is expected.  The Search function in PM uses Apple's Spotlight technology which does not, by default, index non-local disks.  I have read that it is possible to get networked disks to be indexed by Spotlight, but your results may vary:

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/164443/does-os-x-yosemite-support-spotlight-on-network-drives

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Re: Searching for keywords on a server
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2015, 08:13:20 PM »
Thank you Kirk,
I have successfully turned on indexing on the QNAP server...I will let you know how searching goes..
Cheers,
Brendan

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Re: Searching for keywords on a server
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2017, 12:56:46 PM »
Despite the disclaimer I will try to re open the subject ;)  :P

Brendan did you get any success?

I'm facing exactly the same issue or let say challenge ;)
Trying to build up an open-source keyword catalogue.
https://github.com/neiram44/OSKC/

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Re: Searching for keywords on a server
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2017, 09:27:55 AM »
Well I answer to myself and @Kirk Baker

It does not work... and I'm really confused now because here we lose all benefit of PM...

Any other way to do?

Thanks
Trying to build up an open-source keyword catalogue.
https://github.com/neiram44/OSKC/

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Re: Searching for keywords on a server
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2017, 01:11:12 PM »
Well I answer to myself and @Kirk Baker

It does not work... and I'm really confused now because here we lose all benefit of PM...

Any other way to do?

If Spotlight won't find images on your non-local disks, then neither will PM.  I have no workaround that will provide similar functionality at this time.

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