Q: Unable to search network drives with Lion...

another problem . since i've updated to lion my shared hard disk (router thomson) is missed. i've a mbpro with bootcamp in windows 7  (just for pc's games)no problem. it's still there.. any help?

For Godd sake bring me back my old leopard...

I am having the same problem and I just heard back from an Apple Tec stating that the engineers purposly removed the ability to Spotlight External / Networked hard Drives.

WHAT THE H*LL WERE THEY THINKING. Why would the engineers take out the the ability to index External and Networked Drives?

Removing this feature slows me down to a crawl. I have 100's of files stored on USB Hard Drives at home and 1000's of files store on our company Network at work that I now have to look at line by line and folder by folder to find a file that I need.

What is the point of SpotLight if I can not find anything store on external drives?

@cgameiro: Different problem. Likely due to Lions changes in AFP. All non-Apple vendors use the same library that needs updating. See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4700. Note: I have the same issue with an Iomega x2-200, and this article did not fix that for me.

If Lion did not kill my two years worth of TM-backup I would have reverted back to Snow Leopard. Life was good then, almost can't remember it anymore because Lion is truly killing me.

@Ericparagon: it truly depends who you talk to, what the answer will be. I have had this mindblowing answer myself once, asked for second line, got denied, asked for his supervisor, got denied, cursed the guy, hung up and dialed again, but since I have now spoken to about 7 people and the other people concluded it must be a bug, I'm inclined to believe democratic rules, and this one guy just has to be a bad apple. Also, since it was escalated to engineering, I think that points to something they want to solve rather leave by design.

This app EasyFind works great!!! - http://www.devontechnologies.com/products/freeware/

It's like instant searching and the app is free.

EasyFind is the basic version of what the Finder used to do until Lion.

thanks for your suggestion Ahenket, but i'm a rookie with Mac and a basic in technical/system language

i use the easyfind and nothing appears (network hard disk) so i've to wait for better days. oh my old leopard!

EasyFind works when you have a network connnection established. Your problem is a different one: you cannot connect to begin with. This requires adjustment on your side http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4700 or adjustment on your vendors side.

Final word from me. This is what I got back from support:

I finally received word back from my escalation and was told that it was the expected behavior.  I was offered to have it marked as an enhancement request, which I already took the liberty in doing so.

This makes me revert to Snow Leopard, no matter how painful that will be without a backup, because Lion killed that too. Lion is not fit for purpose and I'm going to file for money back.

Numerous follow ups, no response so I am done with Lion.  With the search problems, broken apps, increasing internet reliability problems, bluetooth connectivty failures, black screens and increasing liklihood of my iMac not waking up from sleep, I finally made the decision to rollback using Time Machine to Snow Leopard.

After a big of jiggling with my contacts and my iPhone, I now have a fully functional system again... overall process took 2 hours...

Perhaps when these bugs and other issues are resolved in Lion I might switch back but for now, I have my happy Mac face back on...

I'm glad for you.

Without using time machine, i woul'd like to reverse to the old leopard too.

how can i do that?

Has anybody managed to get a refund for Lion yet?

Just read this on Mac Rumours:

Mac Rumours wrote:

 

Apple is picking up the pace of OS X 10.7.2 developer seeds as it moves toward a public launch of iCloud and iOS 5, today pushing out Build 11C57 to developers for testing. As with the previous seed, which came just five days ago, the iCloud components have been rolled into OS X 10.7.2. iCloud has previously been a separate download for beta testers. Apple continues to list no known issues with the latest build, and has made no changes to its list of focus areas for testing, which include AddressBook, GraphicsDrivers, iCal, iChat, iCloud, Mac App Store, Mail, MobileMe, Safari, Spotlight, and Time Machine.

So it seems that Apple still believe that there is no problem with Lion's Spotlight. They seriously can''t expect everyone do ditch their server set up and buy an Apple server. That's ludicrous.

So, as per my previous question. Has anyone received a refund yet? Maybe they will listen if everyone starts asking for their money back. I'm tired of this now.

Ive updated my router firmware, Im connecting from a new macbook pro to a mac pro tower through the router with updated firmware and I still get ZERO results when searching shared volumes.   I can browse volumes but not search them.

Everything was fine till lion.

GRR...

Funny: I use a Windows 7 laptop to connect to a Snow Leopard machine shared volume and can search perfectly..... using my brand new mac book pro on LION I cant search the same volume.  This is JUNK until its fixed.

I agree, what are they thinking.  Apple Please put search of network drives back into Lion.