win10 explorer search function does not work as expected

[William Gaatjes]

I noticed when trying out search, that at least since the last windows update it seems to miss finding files.
When searching for files which has a " , " in the name comes up with zero results when only typing a " , " in the search box.
Also, i just tried it out when making a copy of a file and naming that file copy2. That the search does not find the file when searching for 2 or y2 or py2 or opy2. It needs the full name copy2.

Is the indexing gone wrong or messed up ?
I tested it at work and at home and several colleagues have the same issue.
All win10 machines recently updated since last week.

Is there any reason why this should happen ?

 

[RLGL]

What version of 10 do you have? Should be in settings

 

[William Gaatjes]

Well, i tried that. but non characters do not seem to work even when i fiddled around with some of the search options.

https://www.isunshare.com/windows-10/change-search-options-for-files-and-folders-on-windows-10.html

, . " ' & for example all do not return results.

 

[RLGL]

I just tried searching for "link.txt" using " *ink.* ". It found it using wild cards.

 

[William Gaatjes]

That works here too, but it used to work without wildcards. That is what i do not understand. Must be some update gone wrong.
I will try to rebuild the search index.
A few weeks ago, the pc on my work, even the startmenu search did not work anymore at all.
I had to ask for the help of the IT professional to get it to work again since i needed admin rights that i do not have normally.