{"id":210,"date":"2014-04-14T14:56:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T14:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnfperry.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2014-04-14T14:56:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T14:56:54","slug":"windows-7-network-search-workaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnfperry.com\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"Windows &#8211; 7 &#8211; Network Search workaround"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something which worked.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;\u00a0simply index the network files as a workaround.<br \/>\nAdd a non-indexed UNC as a library<br \/>\n===========================<br \/>\n1. Create a folder on your hard drive for shares. i.e. c:\\share<br \/>\n2. Create another folder in the above share. i.e. c:\\share\\music<br \/>\n2. Link the Library to this folder.<br \/>\n3. Delete the folder.<br \/>\n4. Use the mklink in an elevated command prompt to make a symbolic link. Name the link the same as the folder you created above.<br \/>\ni.e &#8211; mklink \/d c:\\share\\music <a href=\"file:\/\/\\\\server\\music\">\\\\server\\music<\/a><br \/>\n5. Done. Now you have non-indexed UNC path as a library.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/social.technet.microsoft.com\/Forums\/windows\/en-US\/afb904c1-1c61-4aae-b6b1-5cf525b9f8de\/how-do-i-get-windows-7-to-index-a-network-mapped-drive?forum=w7itpronetworking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cecilia Zhou<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But it appears to be slow.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s another <a href=\"http:\/\/techgage.com\/article\/windows_7_libraries_and_network_folders\/\">reference <\/a>to the same topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something which worked. &#8230;\u00a0simply index the network files as a workaround. Add a non-indexed UNC as a library ===========================&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnfperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}