Ah, OK. That’s good to know. I don’t use the find function much anyway. So what do you suggest as the next step to re-link the files? I have recreated the nested folders two deep to help hook recognize them. I.e. if the original places was Users>Home folder>Dropbox >Database, the moved file lives in Servername>Dropbox>Database. Is this enough for the links to heal?
Also to force spotlight to re-index the server, I used the way Apple suggest-adding the server folder into spotlight ‘s list of where NOT to index and then removing it again. There is no indication of how long it takes to re-index again but I checked back the next day and it still wasn’t working.