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I had a problem whereby searching the documents library (even for a file name that I could actually see in the window before I started the search) would result in no results found, but it would work for other random locations, like for example a folder on another partition which has nothing to do with any Windows libraries.
Apparently if you exclude your documents folder from being indexed, then try to search it through Libraries > Documents, you won't get any results. My workaround until today was to have a shortcut to my documents folder rather than a shortcut to Libraries > Documents, and searching would work fine.
My 'documents' folder isn't located in the default place, and I don't know whether moving the default documents folder would result in it being indexed by default.
I had probably explicitly switched off indexing for my documents folder anyway because I don't want Windows spending time indexing things that I rarely search, nor do I care if searching takes a little longer because the location isn't indexed.
Anyway, odd little problem, and I thought I'd post this in case anyone else is head-scratching over this weird little problem
Apparently if you exclude your documents folder from being indexed, then try to search it through Libraries > Documents, you won't get any results. My workaround until today was to have a shortcut to my documents folder rather than a shortcut to Libraries > Documents, and searching would work fine.
My 'documents' folder isn't located in the default place, and I don't know whether moving the default documents folder would result in it being indexed by default.
I had probably explicitly switched off indexing for my documents folder anyway because I don't want Windows spending time indexing things that I rarely search, nor do I care if searching takes a little longer because the location isn't indexed.
Anyway, odd little problem, and I thought I'd post this in case anyone else is head-scratching over this weird little problem