Search tool going through my Windows shared folders

[blued]

Hi,

I've got Mint 13 installed as guest in VirtualBox and have 3 shared Windows folders enabled. Whenever I do a search thru the file system it also unnecessarily searches through these windows shares (drives) which are 100's of gigabytes. So it gets bogged down and the searches take a long time.

The shared folders are in the Media folder. Is there any way I can prevent the search tool from going thru these?

Thanks.

[yancek]

How are you doing the search? You should be able to restrict the search parameters to any directories you want?

[atreyu]

if you are using GNU find, you can use this to ignore the CIFS (Samba) filesystem:

find . ! -fstype cifs

or you could use this to not descend into all other filesystems:

find . -xdev

[blued]

OK, issue resolved. The problem was in doing searches using the Caja file explorer, in which case it would search thru the windows shares. Using the stand-alone search tool did not have this problem.

Thanks.