File Search (not Spotlight)

ecp5 · JBOD Joined: 08 Feb 2010 Posts: 2

I am new to XSAN, so am fumbling my way through. I work for a print design shop and we have a lot of smaller files, images, PDF's etc. that I need indexed and searchable and I think Spotlight bogged down and I ended up turning it off on my volume.

Does anyone have suggestions on a file search engine that is native to Mac that could handle a large volume (5.0 TB) and preferably has a decent GUI for end-users.

abstractrude · Xsan Master Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 865

honestly a 5 TB volume isnt that big. I think your best bet is to troubleshoot spotlight to get it working. Why dont you try changing the spotlight search level to FS search which will search file names only. who setup your xsan, was it professional integrated
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3749

abstractrude · Xsan Master Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 865

you may need to script rebuilds of the index every night. as for other search tools i use the find command in the terminal but it doesnt have a gui.

ecp5 · JBOD Joined: 08 Feb 2010 Posts: 2

Thanks was going to try just the FS index. Also, I didn't think 5 TB was huge, it was the quantity of files that I saw as bogging it down, esp. as I was importing them into the SAN.