It just works after Spotlight let me down

Back in the day, let’s say 2005, Spotlight used to be able to search a networked PC drive insanely faster than the native search functions built into the Windows XP system itself. Finding a file in 4 seconds from a Mac versus 79 seconds from the PC being searched was typical of my experience. Even when I worked on the PC itself, I sometimes searched from my networked Mac Pro! Several years later, I started using Mac Server as my file server and moved from a recongifured MacPro as server to a Mac Mini Server solution, but I outgrew it of late and felt the time might be right to move to a Windows server. By that time, I was on Mavericks and didn’t anticipate just how broken SMB was on the Mac platform, since I had been using Apple server technology for about seven years straight. I was about to buy a seat of a third party product that was said to allow potlight searches for SMB volumes for the server, but since I was the only Mac user on the network, this grated on me. Said software was fairly costly. So I looked into it further and EasyFind seemed like a solution that I could not pass up trying at [literally] infinitely less cost. Five minutes later, and I can now access and search for files on the server once again! I was appalled at how spotty performance of Spotlight was when searching a PC server. It almost didn’t work at all, except for the rare instances where it did. Intermittently.

JamesDonato about EasyFind