We have purchased new HP machines with windows 8.1 pro OS pre installed on the system,in which windows search is unable to search in mapped drive,We have a mapped drive in which  .pdf , .tiff , .dwg files are placed

If we search like with "6022" in windows 7 or windows vista or windows XP its showing 96 files and same thing if we ll do with windows 8.1 it shows only one PDF file. so its unable to search the files which are already there in the mapped drive.

So can you please tell the resolution for this problem....

Are the network share index. By default windows 8.1 doesn't index network share so you might want to add those.

Quick guide here about indexing.

http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/windows-8.1-file-search,2-740-2.html

Can you please share how to Index mapped drive/Network Share,cause the link mentioned doesn't tell how to do the mapped drive indexing.

Thanks in advance.

I have googled and found following link explaining how to Index Mapped drive in windows 8.1,

http://www.online-tech-tips.com/windows-8/add-network-folder-to-windows-8-search-index/

But in my case that Include in Library don't appear so i am not able to complete the procedure mentioned....

Hi Malav,

"But in my case that Include in Library don't appear "

Please right click the Windows Explorer blank space and check "Show Libraries". Then the libraries will be shown.

Best regards

Sir Thats ture.....but the option not appearing while right clicking on to that mapped drive....That option must appear there....

I did small practical what i did I right click on One of the small size folder from the mapped drive and make it as "Always Available Offline" and then went to Indexing property and made Offline Files Indexed and then restarted the pc and then searched in that folder like "07300" and there were 43 files(No of files searched are Same as in Windows7 and windows Vista ).

Now Once again i removed that folder from "Always Available Offline" and then searched "07300" it was only able to find 22 files.

Our Network drive size is near to 600 GB so we can not do that Offline Indexing.

• Edited by Malav Dhimmar 20 hours 32 minutes ago

I did small practical what i did I right click on One of the small size folder from the mapped drive and make it as "Always Available Offline" and then went to Indexing property and made Offline Files Indexed and then restarted the pc and then searched in that folder like "07300" and there were 43 files(No of files searched are Same as in Windows7 and windows Vista ).

Now Once again i removed that folder from "Always Available Offline" and then searched "07300" it was only able to find 22 files.

Our Network drive size is near to 600 GB so we can not do that Offline Indexing.

• Edited by Malav Dhimmar Friday, July 17, 2015 10:52 AM

I did small practical what i did I right click on One of the small size folder from the mapped drive and make it as "Always Available Offline" and then went to Indexing property and made Offline Files Indexed and then restarted the pc and then searched in that folder like "07300" and there were 43 files(No of files searched are Same as in Windows7 and windows Vista ).

Now Once again i removed that folder from "Always Available Offline" and then searched "07300" it was only able to find 22 files.

Our Network drive size is near to 600 GB so we can not do that Offline Indexing.

• Edited by Malav Dhimmar Friday, July 17, 2015 10:52 AM

I did small practical what i did I right click on One of the small size folder from the mapped drive and make it as "Always Available Offline" and then went to Indexing property and made Offline Files Indexed and then restarted the pc and then searched in that folder like "07300" and there were 43 files(No of files searched are Same as in Windows7 and windows Vista ).

Now Once again i removed that folder from "Always Available Offline" and then searched "07300" it was only able to find 22 files.

Our Network drive size is near to 600 GB so we can not do that Offline Indexing.

• Edited by Malav Dhimmar Friday, July 17, 2015 10:52 AM

Downloaded and Used the mentioned tool and added network shared folder in to the library and then rebuild the index and then tried to search the same thing as per earlier thread but its searching only 22 files instead of 43 Files.

Issue not resolved!!!!

Hi Malav,

Please search "Indexing Options" and check the configurations here.

We could modify the locations included in the options, we also could choose the "Advanced" ,check the files types included in the options.
If issue persists, we could choose the troubleshoot tool (Troubleshoot search and indexing) to have a diagnostic.

Best regards

What kind of troubleshooting to be done in this case,Most of the things suggested i had already tried but Issue is still there and if windows XP,windows vista,windows 7 and windows server 2008 r2 are able to find the things then why WINDOWS 8 is having this issue??

Can anybody help???

CAN ANYONE PLEASE HELP...

OR ITS NOT POSSIBLE IN WINDOWS 8!!!!!!

Hi Malav,

The troubleshoot tool is located here:

Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Troubleshooting\All Categories\Search and Indexing

Best regards

Troubleshooting already done before.........Troubleshooter unable to find the problem.....

NO SUCCESS.......

Please tell the solution.

Hi Malav,

We could choose "Rebuild" option to delete the index and configure it again to have a check.

To understand the issue more clearly, please upload the screenshots of the search results and the indexing configurations.
We could try to map a small folder and refer to the link posted before to add the indexing to have a test. Please pay attention whether the issue only occurred with the specific types.

Best regards

Hi Malav,

We could choose "Rebuild" option to delete the index and configure it again to have a check.

To understand the issue more clearly, please upload the screenshots of the search results and the indexing configurations.
We could try to map a small folder and refer to the link posted before to add the indexing to have a test. Please pay attention whether the issue only occurred with the specific file types.

Best regards

I am trying to insert Screen Shot {Image 167 KB} since Saturday but i am not able to upload the file,I dont know whats wrong??? I will try today also and will update you once again.

Hi Malav,

As a workaround, we could upload the screenshots to OneDrive and paste the link here.

Best regards

Sir you can check the attachment on following link.

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=7556C633BA712839!151&authkey=!AKpmOCc58i87Bz0&v=3&ithint=photo%2cjpg

Thanks and Regards,

Malav Dhimmar.

Hi Malav,

The "Offline files" option is not included in the option. Have you checked the offline option of the network drive and sync the offline files?

Please open "sync center", "manage offline files"and enable the "offline files".

Best regards

Sir I already mentioned the steps which i had performed in earlier thread,I cant do this cause my Network drive is around 600 GB so that i cant use the offline files option.

My question is simple if Windows XP,Windows Vista,Windows 7 easily can search files why windows 8 is having this issue,I have not done any types of troubleshooting in win XP,Vista and Win 7 why i need to perform troubleshooting in windows 8.1.

so Microsoft needs to work on the same and will have to give some patches so that this issue get resolved.

I am once again explaining the steps which i performed,

I did small practical what i did I right click on One of the small size folder from the mapped drive and make it as "Always Available Offline" and then went to Indexing property and made Offline Files Indexed and then restarted the pc and then searched in that folder like "07300" and there were 43 files(No of files searched are Same as in Windows7 and windows Vista ).

Now Once again i removed that folder from "Always Available Offline" and then searched "07300" it was only able to find22 files.

Our Network drive size is near to 600 GB so we can not do that Offline Indexing.

Thanks,

Malav Dhimmar.

Sir anything that you can assist with?

Thanks in Advance.

Hi Malav,

Considering the index of the network drive is based on the offline feature but the network drive is too big to be available offline.
As a work around, we could arrange the files of the network drive based on folder, then share the folders one by one to map them instead of mapping the whole 600G network drive. This is the only solution I could figure out.

Best regards