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I can acces my SSD via my NAS via SMB just fine.
Windows properties pane shows a checkbox near Indexed files/folders.

No matter how many times I disable Indexing for this particular network drive, after clicking apply and after all files have been Un-indexed, I reopened the properties box.

The checkbox near Indexing has reappeared.

Some of my local drives have Indexing Unchecked, and remain unindexed (the checkbox there stays unchecked).

On this drive however the checkbox re-appears every time.
After numerous restarts and trails and searched invail, I'm asking here.

What is the culprit here?

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Sam
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Use Control Panel, Indexing Options, and remove the NAS from the Indexing Locations.

Look on the screen shot, left side and make NAS folders have not been selected.

When you remove the NAS, you may wish to reindex and let it run overnight. Then check

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I reached out to Microsoft about this maybe 17 years ago. It makes no sense for every workstation in an organization to index a shared drive when there are tens of thousands of workstations. I showed them how it always reenables itself as well. The discussion never went anywhere. I suppose they assume a company must disable indexing nw shares if they want end user workstations not to index their mapped drives but that seems like a poor default function. To me, by default, this means every workstation, file server, and the overall network must be bogged down with indexing for that feature to keep performing its duty.

jawz101
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