Search tool going through my Windows shared folders

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.

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

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

Code:

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find . ! -fstype cifs

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

Code:

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find . -xdev

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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.