Windows 7 search troubles
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 6:07 pm
Windows 7 search doesn't seem to actually do the "searching" it claims to be doing. I was trying to search for a Jimi Hendrix song in my relatively-recently-acquired Hendrix collection. Now, I have had some frustrating learning experiences before with windows 7 search (for example, if you want your search to be accurate/complete, you have to append and prepend your search term(s) with an asterisk -- I know, it makes no fucking sense).
Here's my problem: I entered the term "*freedom*" in the search bar (sans quotes) while browsing my Hendrix folder. No hits. Due to my past issues with Windows search, I had reason to investigate further. I found that the song "Freedom" was indeed inside one of the sub-folders of my Jimi Hendrix folder. Hmm... This is odd. It should have shown up in the search. I quickly discovered that not a single song or sub-folder within my Hendrix folder would register in search! How irritating! In my book, this is a bad enough bug to say that Windows search is critically broken.
Then I decided to see if it was a general problem with my search service, or something. Nope! I tested some other random search terms in different folders, and many hits began to show up in the search results.
So why aren't searches in Jimi Hendrix working properly? Well, I downloaded Jimi Hendrix just a few weeks ago; that is to say that his folder and all of the music inside of it are a new addition to my hard drive. I tested out search terms within other folders & contents that I have recently acquired, and sure enough, all of the ones that have been created relatively recently demonstrated the exact same problem as the Hendrix folders: not a single search term would produce search results, even though I was using search terms that were precisely the same as songs which I knew were inside of that folder.
The hypothesis that I'm led to create, then, is that new folders are somehow not being searched properly by my windows search. Am I missing something?
Here's my problem: I entered the term "*freedom*" in the search bar (sans quotes) while browsing my Hendrix folder. No hits. Due to my past issues with Windows search, I had reason to investigate further. I found that the song "Freedom" was indeed inside one of the sub-folders of my Jimi Hendrix folder. Hmm... This is odd. It should have shown up in the search. I quickly discovered that not a single song or sub-folder within my Hendrix folder would register in search! How irritating! In my book, this is a bad enough bug to say that Windows search is critically broken.
Then I decided to see if it was a general problem with my search service, or something. Nope! I tested some other random search terms in different folders, and many hits began to show up in the search results.
So why aren't searches in Jimi Hendrix working properly? Well, I downloaded Jimi Hendrix just a few weeks ago; that is to say that his folder and all of the music inside of it are a new addition to my hard drive. I tested out search terms within other folders & contents that I have recently acquired, and sure enough, all of the ones that have been created relatively recently demonstrated the exact same problem as the Hendrix folders: not a single search term would produce search results, even though I was using search terms that were precisely the same as songs which I knew were inside of that folder.
The hypothesis that I'm led to create, then, is that new folders are somehow not being searched properly by my windows search. Am I missing something?
[quote=plasma2002]turn on your indexing service[/quote]