When I'm using Vista's search or advanced search, it finds files that do not exist any more, and does not find files that I can see in the directory. I rebuilt the index and made sure that the directories and drives were all listed in the index list. I'm pretty new to vista, but it's pretty discouraging to know that it's missing files. I'm not as interested in performance as I am in accuracy at this point. Is there another way to search that will see ALL my files? I'm running 32bit Vista Business In addition, I constantly (many times/day) get the message "Windows Explorer has stopped working", then it closes all the windows I'm trying to do file management in. (is this a topic for a different newsgroup - maybe "I HATE VISTA!" or something) -- Roger Z
Hi Roger I'm experiencing something like that myself, though in my case I'm using Vista Home. I'm an antiquarian bookdealer and this morning I was wanting to search my Invoices folder for all invoices to a particular individual (these all have his full name and address on them). When I did a search for his surname (which is uinique) I found 21 invoices, when I searched for his house name (also unique) I found 28 invoices, and when I searched for his village name (again unique) I found 34 invoices. There are in fact more than 34 invoices to him on my computer. If all three searches came up with the same number of invoices, I might be able to figure out what is wriong - with them all different I'm totally at a loss. John Eggeling -- John Eggeling Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com
One thing that seems to help the Vista search function is to periodically rebuild the search index. Control Panel| Classic View| Indexing Options| Advanced| Rebuild. This takes about 20 minutes if you are not otherwise using the computer keyboad & mouse; otherwise it may take several hours as the indexing runs very slowly in the background while you are active. I currently show 14,735 items in my index. I rebuild about once a month and go have lunch while it does its thing. Seems to help it stay current and accurate. Have a try at rebuilding and post back with your experience. Cheers, -- HP Pavilion - 2GB RAM - Core2 Duo CPU Vista Home Premium Movie Maker 6.0 Office 2007 "John Eggeling" wrote in message news:John.Eggeling.3ctbc6@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com... > > Hi Roger > > I'm experiencing something like that myself, though in my case I'm > using Vista Home. I'm an antiquarian bookdealer and this morning I was > wanting to search my Invoices folder for all invoices to a particular > individual (these all have his full name and address on them). > > When I did a search for his surname (which is uinique) I found 21 > invoices, when I searched for his house name (also unique) I found 28 > invoices, and when I searched for his village name (again unique) I > found 34 invoices. There are in fact more than 34 invoices to him on my > computer. > > If all three searches came up with the same number of invoices, I might > be able to figure out what is wriong - with them all different I'm > totally at a loss. > > John Eggeling > > > -- > John Eggeling > Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com >
Thanks for the suggestion. I rebuilt the search index, slowly at first then faster when I changed my power saving settings. Finally reindexed in about 20 mins and repeated my searches - they come out exactly the same as before ! Each of the three words I search for in my invoice files occur in every invoice I am looking for, yet I still get a different number of files returned for each of the three words. And some files are still being missed entirely. -- John Eggeling Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com
I have found that the free program Agent Ransack provides me with much more reliable searching. Michael "John Eggeling" wrote in message news:John.Eggeling.3cx3g3@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com... > > Thanks for the suggestion. I rebuilt the search index, slowly at first > then faster when I changed my power saving settings. Finally reindexed > in about 20 mins and repeated my searches - they come out exactly the > same as before ! > > Each of the three words I search for in my invoice files occur in every > invoice I am looking for, yet I still get a different number of files > returned for each of the three words. And some files are still being > missed entirely. > > > -- > John Eggeling > Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com >
