How can I search for files on my external hard drive WD My Passport, using spotlight?

Hello

I bought my first apple product, a MBP of the retina and has opened and updated at the El Capitan 10.11.6 a few hours ago.

I need exclusively for music (traktor and ableton) and research songs and samples is essential.

First slap my face was when I read on school drop-outs and questions with traktor and every update after that Yosemite 10.5 and I could have downgrade to it, even if I have no idea how.

Second slap in the face and the question, I'm looking for help, was when I started to use spotlight to find the pieces of my external WD My Passport hard drive, only to discover this method of index (confidentiality, etc.) does not work and that there may be no solution for this problem.

Can I do to solve this problem permanently? Any other tool of research, I can use instead of spotlight which will do the work?

I was really happy with this purchase, but I have my doubts now and I'm starting to think that I have spent a fortune for nothing.

Please, if you have any suggestions, explain in detail because I'm not familiar with the Apple OS.

Thanks in advance!

FWIW, Spotlight can certainly index external drives.

Rebuild the index on your Mac - Apple Support Spotlight

You can use EasyFind since the alternative App Store as a research tool.

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