Hi, year on year, there seems to be the request and now the possibility but yet no howto on how to make spotlight search work. In theory, the following are needed: elasticsearch (app available from TrueNAS market) an index for elasticsearch (fscrawler app available from TrueNAS market) setting t…

just wait until april next year, when official spotlight support lands [image] Spotlight and Search Index in TrueNAS 26.04, & Viewer Questions Galore | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E041 Announcements On today’s TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris digs into a major feature in th…

thanks for the hint, really interesting. However, it seems to me it’s yet another wheel that is reinvented before it is even halfway adopted. What’s wrong about elasticsearch?

That’s something I can’t answer, I don’t have a need for spotlight so I honestly never bothered to look into it

[image] truenasinterested: However, it seems to me it’s yet another wheel that is reinvented before it is even halfway adopted. What’s wrong about elasticsearch? Nothing, truesearch appears to use an elasticsearch backend.

It’s really interesting to see how much attention the community has given to getting Spotlight search working reliably on TrueNAS — especially when comparing it to the way other NAS systems handle indexing out of the box. While the current manual approach with Elast i cSearch and FSCrawler is commenda…

Is there a comparable windows alternative? Something like that would be great for powertoys command palette.

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LarsR November 1, 2025, 11:17am 2

just wait until april next year, when official spotlight support lands

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