# Discovery Operations and Metadata Updates
##### last update on: May 22, 2023

When Access Anywhere discovers storage contents or changes to storage contents during an initiial provider sync, a provider re-sync, a Cloud Refresh or a Deep Cloud Refresh, it will update its files metadata to reflect what it has discovered as follows:

#### If Solr Search is Not Enabled
**Basic file metadata** is updated in the Access Anywhere database synchronously as it is discovered.

#### If Solr Search is Enabled and Content Indexing is Not Enabled for the Provider
**Basic file metadata** is updated in the Access Anywhere database synchronously as it is discovered.

**Basic file metadata** is updated in the Solr search engine database asynchronously starting no later than after the discovery portion of the process has been completed, and possibly sooner.

#### If Solr Search is Enabled and Content Indexing is Enabled for the Provider
**Basic file metadata** is updated in the Access Anywhere database synchronously as it is discovered.

**Basic file metadata and file contents** are updated together in the Solr search engine database asynchronously starting no later than after the discovery portion of the process has been completed, and possibly sooner.