Timeline for Ghost shortcuts appearing in Windows Search for deleted folders
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| Jun 7, 2020 at 11:00 | comment | added | SKidd | Your said "Have you rebuilt the Search index?" How does that connect with your last comment to use 3rd party software and why I'd use MS indexing on the server? Also, if a user on that domain searches from a mapped drive at their PC they are getting access to what they are allowed to see. Hence the "across users" thing is moot. Disabling search would mean that user 'x' searching for file on their shared locations on the server would always have to wait while Windows finds it which is crazy long if not indexed. And that happens at the server. | |
| Jun 7, 2020 at 3:00 | comment | added | DrMoishe Pippik | 1. Most servers I've used did not allow searches, particularly because it indexes across users. 2. There are many other search utilities for non-servers: alternativeto.net/software/windows-search | |
| Jun 6, 2020 at 13:19 | comment | added | SKidd | What do you mean that's MS indexing and not use on a server? Its what Server 2012 used to index to do searches from File Explorer - and when you search from a client on a server share, the client PCs search results are from the server not local. Baffled by that MS Indexing thing. Care to explain what alternative you might have? | |
| Jun 5, 2020 at 19:27 | comment | added | DrMoishe Pippik | That's MS indexing. Not sure why you'd use it on a server. | |
| Jun 5, 2020 at 16:02 | comment | added | SKidd | Rebuilding the index for a server with tens of thousands of files is not trivial, it takes ages + bogs it down. Further, the whole point of it should be that it notices changes. These were made weeks ago. FWIW I did as suggested overnight and it did fix it. But why would it not notice and update the index? Another question to post? | |
| Jun 4, 2020 at 18:05 | comment | added | DrMoishe Pippik | Have you rebuilt the Search index? techjunkie.com/how-to-solve-windows-search-issues-index-rebuild | |
| Jun 4, 2020 at 16:16 | history | asked | SKidd | CC BY-SA 4.0 |