Finder cannot searching for NTFS formatted external hard disk

MacBookAir,1.8GhZ,Memory 4GB1600 MHz DDR3
osx10.9.3
Finder  can show and open the files from the external hard disk but can not searching for the files.

Barney-15E wrote:
Tuxera or paragon will give you write access, but I don't know if that will allow Spotlight to work on those drives.
A brief experiment suggests that Spotlight does not index an NTFS volume driven by Paragon NTFS. I don't have a copy of Tuxera to test.
Sorry, cchaikittiporn. Paragon does not seem to be a solution for your issue.

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