Search external drive with subfolders

Do you know that many users experience problems with the my mac external haddrive search subfolder issue?

Situation:

  • Mac OS
  • Dejay Pro 2
  • External haddrive (Music folder with subfolders, multiple Levels, ntfs)
  • added to dejay libary via from my mac (Face Symbol)
  • all Folders and subfolders Show up and are accessable (treeview)

Problem:
Search only searches music in selected folder, but NOT Subfolders.

Expectation:

Create a public solution or statement for this Issue.

Give us a clue i its the file system or anything Else.

Hi Arne,

Thank you for your post and your detailed outline of the problem.

Can you please also share the format in which your external drive is in?

Thank you in advance.

Cheers,Lukas E.

Hi Arne,

Thank you for your post and your detailed outline of the problem.

Can you please also share the format in which your external drive is in?

Thank you in advance.

Cheers,Lukas E.

Hi Arne,

sorry did not see that you already shared your formatting with us.

Unfortunately at the moment ntfs and fat32 formatted hard drives are not searchable.

We are aware of this issue and I will push the topic internally.

Thank you for sharing your feedback.

Cheers,Lukas E. 

Hi Arne, 

every other Mac supported external harddrive file format except ntfs and fat32 should work.

Cheers,Lukas E.

We can recommend the APFS file format system by Apple.

Cheers,
Lukas E.

Hi Lukas,

do you mean the file system „ntfs“ as mentioned in my post?

Hi Lukas, ist is ntfs.
Please tell me under what circumstances does the search on a external drive global and with all subfolders work?

With what filesystem does this work?

Hi Lukas,

could you name a few?