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So let me see, you create a smart folder (which is essentially a canned search) for the contents of a network drive (presumably Windows hosted) and are complaining that it takes 30 seconds to refresh the contents?
How is it supposed to know whether something's updated the content on the network drive without checking the timestamps/filesizes/checksums of everything contained therein? That's going to take some time and depend on speed of your network and the speed of the network host.
I've got a smart folder called 'CIOT anything this month', which looks for any file on this Mac that contains the string 'CIOT' and was modified in the last 30 days. I've not looked at it today yet until now but it just took 3 seconds to give me back a sorted list of everything relevant. That's because Spotlight updates its database whenever stuff changes on disk.
If the network drive was Mac-hosted instead of Windows, then I _think_ I'm right in saying that the Spotlight index of the remote machine would be accessible to the local machine and so the smart folder results would come back similarly quickly for you as for me.
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simon
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