Searching network drives?

Hello.

Still trying to figure out Vista as my work computer was recently
upgraded from XP.

In XP if I wanted to search a network drive for a file or folder with a
partial known name, I'd use the search tool and it returned results fairly
quickly.

In Vista, the network admins have indexing disabled for the network
because they don't want hundreds of computers constantly scanning for
changes. Which is fine, but now when I want to find a file, I *think* this
thing is scanning through every file, *name and contents* for my search term,
which makes it far, far slower. In fact, in the time it took me to search
this newsgroup, read about 10 posts, and then open this window to type my
query, Explorer has still not located the document I want. (I know it exists
because I was just looking at it from a coworker's screen.)

I *could* just ask him what the path is, but that wouldn't be "teaching a
man to fish" as it were. Would somebody please clue me into how I can search
file names only? Is that an option anywhere?

Thanks!

Jim

If you look at the Search tab via Control Panel > Folder Options then
there's an option for this ("Always search file names only") , if I've
understood you correctly.

--
Jon


"JaimeZX" <> wrote in message
news:A2C657EB-CA58-4CA8-990E-...
> Hello.
>
> Still trying to figure out Vista as my work computer was recently
> upgraded from XP.
>
> In XP if I wanted to search a network drive for a file or folder with a
> partial known name, I'd use the search tool and it returned results fairly
> quickly.
>
> In Vista, the network admins have indexing disabled for the network
> because they don't want hundreds of computers constantly scanning for
> changes. Which is fine, but now when I want to find a file, I *think* this
> thing is scanning through every file, *name and contents* for my search
> term,
> which makes it far, far slower. In fact, in the time it took me to search
> this newsgroup, read about 10 posts, and then open this window to type my
> query, Explorer has still not located the document I want. (I know it
> exists
> because I was just looking at it from a coworker's screen.)
>
> I *could* just ask him what the path is, but that wouldn't be "teaching a
> man to fish" as it were. Would somebody please clue me into how I can
> search
> file names only? Is that an option anywhere?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jim

Jon, thanks for the reply.

First, a follow-up - I let my previous search run all night and it still
didn't find the folder I was looking for.

I set the options to "search file names only" as Jon suggested, and it found
the folder in about 15 seconds.

I guess my second question(s) is(are), then, "Why is this buried in the
control panel? Is there a way to do it on the fly without digging into the
control panel? Is there a way to do this from the search pane?"

Thanks again!

"Jon" wrote:

> If you look at the Search tab via Control Panel > Folder Options then
> there's an option for this ("Always search file names only") , if I've
> understood you correctly.
>
> --
> Jon
>
>
> "JaimeZX" <> wrote in message
> news:A2C657EB-CA58-4CA8-990E-...
> > Hello.
> >
> > Still trying to figure out Vista as my work computer was recently
> > upgraded from XP.
> >
> > In XP if I wanted to search a network drive for a file or folder with a
> > partial known name, I'd use the search tool and it returned results fairly
> > quickly.
> >
> > In Vista, the network admins have indexing disabled for the network
> > because they don't want hundreds of computers constantly scanning for
> > changes. Which is fine, but now when I want to find a file, I *think* this
> > thing is scanning through every file, *name and contents* for my search
> > term,
> > which makes it far, far slower. In fact, in the time it took me to search
> > this newsgroup, read about 10 posts, and then open this window to type my
> > query, Explorer has still not located the document I want. (I know it
> > exists
> > because I was just looking at it from a coworker's screen.)
> >
> > I *could* just ask him what the path is, but that wouldn't be "teaching a
> > man to fish" as it were. Would somebody please clue me into how I can
> > search
> > file names only? Is that an option anywhere?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Jim
>
> .
>

"JaimeZX" <> wrote in message
news:73EB57A6-6782-4923-A769-...
> Jon, thanks for the reply.
>
> First, a follow-up - I let my previous search run all night and it still
> didn't find the folder I was looking for.
>
> I set the options to "search file names only" as Jon suggested, and it
> found
> the folder in about 15 seconds.
>
> I guess my second question(s) is(are), then, "Why is this buried in the
> control panel? Is there a way to do it on the fly without digging into the
> control panel? Is there a way to do this from the search pane?"
>

Yw. Yes you can do it from the Search pane. If you press the 'alt' key and
then Tools > Folder Options from the menu that appears, then you can arrive
at the same place.

--
Jon

Right, right. Guess I was imprecise with my query. What I meant was, why
isn't this just a check box like it was in XP? (Rhetorical question, now.)

Jim

"Jon" wrote:

> "JaimeZX" <> wrote in message
> news:73EB57A6-6782-4923-A769-...
> > Jon, thanks for the reply.
> >
> > First, a follow-up - I let my previous search run all night and it still
> > didn't find the folder I was looking for.
> >
> > I set the options to "search file names only" as Jon suggested, and it
> > found
> > the folder in about 15 seconds.
> >
> > I guess my second question(s) is(are), then, "Why is this buried in the
> > control panel? Is there a way to do it on the fly without digging into the
> > control panel? Is there a way to do this from the search pane?"
> >
>
> Yw. Yes you can do it from the Search pane. If you press the 'alt' key and
> then Tools > Folder Options from the menu that appears, then you can arrive
> at the same place.
>
> --
> Jon
>
>
>
> .
>

On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:43:01 -0800, JaimeZX
<> wrote:

>Right, right. Guess I was imprecise with my query. What I meant was, why
>isn't this just a check box like it was in XP? (Rhetorical question, now.)

Because the whole search interface was redone to work primarily by typing
in the search window, minimizing settings in dialogs. So, you can easily
restrict search results to file names by prefixing your search word with:

filename:
or just
file:

The new style of search takes a little getting used to, but having done
that, I much prefer it. A reference page for the new queries is here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro.../advquery.mspx

Doug M. in NJ

>
>> "JaimeZX" <> wrote in message
>> news:73EB57A6-6782-4923-A769-...
>> > Jon, thanks for the reply.
>> >
>> > First, a follow-up - I let my previous search run all night and it still
>> > didn't find the folder I was looking for.
>> >
>> > I set the options to "search file names only" as Jon suggested, and it
>> > found
>> > the folder in about 15 seconds.
>> >
>> > I guess my second question(s) is(are), then, "Why is this buried in the
>> > control panel? Is there a way to do it on the fly without digging into the
>> > control panel? Is there a way to do this from the search pane?"
>> >
>>
>> Yw. Yes you can do it from the Search pane. If you press the 'alt' key and
>> then Tools > Folder Options from the menu that appears, then you can arrive
>> at the same place.
>>
>> --
>> Jon
>>
>>
>>
>> .
>>

Cool! Thanks for the link and the tip.

Still, seems *less* intuitive to me now because you have to remember tags
for the search bar rather than using checkboxes and drop-downs for the date
ranges, etc. Also doesn't seem like MS considered enterprise usage of the
search tool very well. Just MHO.

Thanks again!

"Retroman" wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:43:01 -0800, JaimeZX
> <> wrote:
>
> >Right, right. Guess I was imprecise with my query. What I meant was, why
> >isn't this just a check box like it was in XP? (Rhetorical question, now.)
>
> Because the whole search interface was redone to work primarily by typing
> in the search window, minimizing settings in dialogs. So, you can easily
> restrict search results to file names by prefixing your search word with:
>
> filename:
> or just
> file:
>
> The new style of search takes a little getting used to, but having done
> that, I much prefer it. A reference page for the new queries is here:
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro.../advquery.mspx
>
> Doug M. in NJ
>
> >
> >> "JaimeZX" <> wrote in message
> >> news:73EB57A6-6782-4923-A769-...
> >> > Jon, thanks for the reply.
> >> >
> >> > First, a follow-up - I let my previous search run all night and it still
> >> > didn't find the folder I was looking for.
> >> >
> >> > I set the options to "search file names only" as Jon suggested, and it
> >> > found
> >> > the folder in about 15 seconds.
> >> >
> >> > I guess my second question(s) is(are), then, "Why is this buried in the
> >> > control panel? Is there a way to do it on the fly without digging into the
> >> > control panel? Is there a way to do this from the search pane?"
> >> >
> >>
> >> Yw. Yes you can do it from the Search pane. If you press the 'alt' key and
> >> then Tools > Folder Options from the menu that appears, then you can arrive
> >> at the same place.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jon
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> .
> >>
> .
>