Windows 7 Index Search does not work in Google Drive folder
OK, I hope this helps for people who are having problems with Windows 7 Search in Google Drive folder. After a few days of playing around, finally got windows search to work and best of all, search inside files(e.g. word, excel) works too!
- make sure security permissions for 3 users (specifically the SYSTEM group) are given FULL access to Google Folder. I'm not sure why my folder only gave my user account access. I realized this only after checking the other folders where index search was working.
- Indexing is enabled for content. When Google Drive synced my files, it apparently did not set this attribute. The funny thing is that the folders were set but not the individual files inside. I'm not sure who to blame for this. So what I did was go to the Google drive folder properties, clicked on Advanced button, then unchecked "Allow files in this folder to have contents indexed in addition to file properties". After clicking all the OKs and confirming to do this to all folders and sub folders, go back to properties and enable the "Allow files in this folder..." so that it will propagate to all files inside.
Now Windows search is working for both normal file search and content searching. I'm not sure if this affects Google Drive in any way. But if you are reading this Google, please fix this in your app (unless this was done intentionally to force users to user Google Drive's online search :P).
Maybe there is a problem with the index of the Windows 7 search.
You can try to correct it with the Microsoft Fix It tool from support microsoft.
Download the tool and execute it.
Select Detect problem and select fix manually.
After some time there is a list of problems and fixes.
Select reset windows search.
After the dialog is finished you problem is hopefully solved.