Can not subscribe CollectionFS in Angular-Meteor

[robfallows]

A collectionFS collection isn’t a normal collection:

Get Mongo's index as an array?

Aha, you didn’t mention collectionfs. To access the actual meteor collection behind a collectionfs collection (which aren’t the same) you’ll need to access .files. Let me quickly guide you through it. So if you had setup collectionfs like so: Files = new FS.Collection("files", { stores: [fileStore] }); The way you’d access and run distinct on the actual collection would be: (note the.files) Files.files.rawCollection().distinct("field", callback); Give that a try