Surf a Seagate external drive

I can open my Seagate external hard disk , exchange files ( Mac - > hard disk , hard disk - > Mac )  but in the "search" area nothing is showing up while looking for a specific file or folder. Any tips ? Thank you , David.

Done. Now it works ...thank you so much bud !

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