I'm having Google Desktop index my P drive. I imagine it could do it on the MAC as well. There's a gDesktop plug-in (audioindexfiler) that reportedly will recognize and index common audio files. I don't know if that's quite the solution, but I'll let you know how it goes with the music I have on the drive.

Having started this remotely. It occurs to me that this might be a process I'd rather do while my computer is attached locally.

I got home and discovered the same thing. I have QuickSearchBox on my Mac too, and it's not quite the same as Desktop. I'm not sure of the details, but I think it goes something like this.. Mac already has a decent search where Windows doesn't (didn't?), and Google had avoided stepping on Job's toes (no longer an issue apparently).

I did go poking around and found that there are plugins for QuickSearch that suggest inclusion of network locations - presumably you could point it at the drive. What I couldn't figure out was how to integrate the plug-ins (I stopped after it looked like it would require more research).

Link to plugins for QSB

When you said a while back that you can't search, was that using the search box at the top of the my.pogoplug web interface?

D.

Dunno.  Desktop is something that's always been just, "there" until I need it.  On XP I need it a lot, on the Mac; not as much.  

Wikipedia suggests that it did work on previous versions of the OSx, but they haven't done anything to make it work with Snow Leopard.  We'll see... 

I did find a procedure to install a plugin for the QuickSearchBox - here - that I'll try later wit the network plugin.  

I'm having better luck with QuickSearchBox on the Mac. There's a 2.0.0.3328 which is a public beta. I added on the network locations, and am able to find items by searching.

Now here's the thing. It also searches your iTunes. Since I put all my music on the external drive and set up iTunes to find the library there, I'm not sure which plugin it's using to find the music, but it does find it.

I typed in Willie Dixon and it returns web search option, lyrics search option. If I hit the right arrow while on his name it gives me a list that includes the album, a selection for "play in iTunes". If I hit the right arrow again it shows me a list of the songs.

This might be working. I'm not sure it works absolutely as planned since I'm not sure how it's finding the music. I suspect it's accessing the iTunes library.

I KNEW if I read the forums long enough I would find someone else has mentioned this issue. I'd like the native Mac's search functin (Spotlight indexing) to be able to find and index files on the popgoplug drives, and it can't see them. When the same drive is plugged into the mac directly, no problem. Any solution for this?

Hmmm. This might also be related to the disc drives not spinning down when inactive. If the Mac is trying to index them but can't read or perhaps can't write the index files (wherever they are?)?