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I'd like to be able to search for all word files in a certain folder that contains some textual phrase. To my understanding, be able to do it, Windows-7 needs to index this folder.

I open 'Indexing-Options' dialog and tried to add a network drive to the list of indexed location but my network drives were not available.

I saw somewhere that in order to do it this network drives need to be marked as 'Offline' but I can't do it. This drive MUST be online because I work on it concurrently with my co-workers.

In summary my question: Is it possible to add a network drive to the indexing location of Windows-7 without changing this drive to be 'offline'? Is there any other way to be able to search inside MS-word documents of some folder in my network drive through Windows search?

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Marking a network resource as “Make Available Offline” basically creates a cache of all files held on that store locally. This is how windows will then index the file as it cannot index network shares. When a folder or network drive entirely is available offline you can still work on any shared documents. Windows is just keeping a cached copy. The only time this copy will be used is if the network connection is taken out (the actual use for this feature) or when indexing. Depending on how much local space and how big the network drive is you may or may not be able to do this.

Zapto
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