Finder search results are broken aliases

If anyone has contacted Apple Support on this can you share your case#? We should all create cases with Enterprise support and site the other customers that have this issue to put more pressure on Apple, which apparently doesn't see this as a big deal. When I talk to them they tell me to call Microsoft, because it must be a Microsoft error. I can't seem to find the number for enterprise support. Does anyone have it?

This is a huge issue for Mac users adnit is amazing that it has taken this long and still no answer from MAC - the productivity loss and time cost to work aroudn this issue is huge and is hitting critical. MAC are you listenting and are you solving this?

You shoudl eb able to save to it. just liek normal, or drag and drop it on the drive. Are you having problems seeing the drive or opening it and viewing the content? I don;t think that is what this is about, just searching files. They come back as broken aliases. That would be a differnt issue if you can't see your drives or content.

For me is different, I can't access the external drive when accessing from the Finder and it shows the exact same error. I have encounter the same error in different cases and anyone has a way to fix it. It seems is the error Apple shows whenever they don't want to fix something.

I have a Mac that is having the same issue with seeing search results from a brand new Windows server. The OS. on the iMac is. 10.13.1.

Not updating to 10.13.2 because another client is having issues moving folders on the server via SMB with 10.13.2. Finder crashes and has to be hard restarted to get the computer to work again.

Let me know if anyone finds a solution.

I'm having issues too - whole office of imacs not able to automatically connect to the share (tried using script and dragging to login items) and broken aliases when searching - everything works great from my 2017 MBP, which ironically enough also has high sierra on it!

Ugh :-( Just discovered I have the same problem after moving all my documents and files to a Synology NAS, connected via SMB. Will try if the suggested tool works. Don't know why Apple doesn't repair this, it's asked around all over the internet. Also I notice that SMB is way slower then AFP; both are slower then using SMB from Windows or Linux machines. Oh well, I guess I have to learn to live with it... :-/

I am not a IT guy just a user, I have this issue myself: when you say run this: "sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/sharedvolumename" is that the thing to run in terminal or is there a name that I replace "sharedvolumename" with, because I get "

Michaels-MBP:~ EwingWorks$ "sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/sharedvolumename"

-bash: sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/sharedvolumename: No such file or directory

Michaels-MBP:~ EwingWorks$

so I ahve not idea waht this means or if I am doing it right.

Sorry I am going to ask one more question of you if it is okay: did it and this is result:

/Volumes/BIGDADDY:

2018-02-09 07:05:43.519 mdutil[37936:1089482] mdutil disabling Spotlight: /Volumes/BIGDADDY -> kMDConfigSearchLevelFSSearchOnly

Indexing disabled.

Michaels-MBP:~ EwingWorks$

Is says indexing disabled, will it dtart itself or do i need to do something to make it index again?

Hi ClicoMan

Much appreciated for helping out. : )

I tried with the sudo command and it does accept my password but still no success enabling indexing. see below.

Am I missing something?

Thanks

my-laptop:~ Homer$ sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/companydata2

Password:

/Volumes/companydata2:

2018-02-20 11:54:33.314 mdutil[2443:539960] mdutil disabling Spotlight: /Volumes/companydata2 -> kMDConfigSearchLevelFSSearchOnly

Indexing disabled.

my-laptop:~ Homer$ sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/companydata2

/Volumes/companydata2:

Indexing disabled.

Hi homerjsimpson8,

Do you have read, write and execute privileges to this share? What file system is this share using? How do you connect to it? I ask that you think what other factors may be in play. For me the technique we have discussed resolved the problem for direct attached external drives and a few NAS devices I am connecting to using iSCSI. All these devices are using the NTFS file system. I run "Paragon NTFS for Mac" all my Macs.

But, I have one share drive inside a box called a "DVDFab Media Server" and that one will not work. It is a specialized device running the Android OS so I can understand that there has to be a supported infrastructure also for the indexing to work. I wish I could help more. Good luck.

Hi Clickman

I really appreciate your follow-up and can understand that the same conditions may not apply to all.

If there is anyone else in the community that can help that would be great.

It's an NTFS share on on Windows 2008 SBS server. Yes it is that old.

We have connected to the share using both SMB and CIFS protocols, connection is via Finder | Go | Connect to Server smb://server or cifs://server

We get the same results with either of the 2 protocols in the following 2 scenarios.

1st scenario: is a user's imac OS 10.13.3 without Paragon for NTFS and only Read & Execute, List Folder contents and Read access to share.

2nd scenario: my macbook pro OS 10.13.3 with Paragon for NTFS and Full Control to the same share logging on as Domain Administrator.

This is quite atrocious. Think about it. The only reason a Macbook user would need to connect to a windows server file share is because they are in a business environment. If Macbook users can no longer reliably access windows fileshares, do you think business will keep using Macbooks Pros? We have two Mac users, If they can no longer reliably use fileshares, then I will not be getting any more.

Hi Emanuel.za,

What is the purpose of the command (creating the folder)?

sudo mkdir -p / private / var / db / Spotlight-V100 / Volumes /

Hi,

This response/solution is new to me. Can you explain what is the intent of the command?

sudo mkdir -p / private / var / db / Spotlight-V100 / Volumes /

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