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Greetings readers,
I have the following issue,
Win2k SP4 "search for files or folders" stopped searching
inside folders, even though the "search subfolders" option is enabled
(in fact I can't really disabled it since it automatically re-enables
itself the next time I open a search)
>From what I can see, search for files now looks only in the Root c:\
dir and inside "Documents and Settings" (i.e. my documents etc) - it
ignores all other disk folders, and I can also see this from the names
of folders searched that briefly flashes on the bottom line when I
start a search. It only searches in folders if I explicitly direct it
(with "browse" option") to search in a specific folder.
I tried to enable and disable the indexing service (it has always been
disabled on my pc) but didn't fix it.
I also tried defrag, chkdsk /r, abd using a third party utility like
ransack search agent- it works perfectly, so I don't think its a disk
or network problem. Always logged in admin account. permissions are set
to read the entire drive.
by the way, when searching this machine from another machine on a
network, the other machine also searches only the above directories
(not the entire disk) unless using a third party utility. But the
other machine searches properly its own drive.
thanks
Greetings readers,
I have the following issue,
Win2k SP4 "search for files or folders" stopped searching
inside folders, even though the "search subfolders" option is enabled
(in fact I can't really disabled it since it automatically re-enables
itself the next time I open a search)
>From what I can see, search for files now looks only in the Root c:\
dir and inside "Documents and Settings" (i.e. my documents etc) - it
ignores all other disk folders, and I can also see this from the names
of folders searched that briefly flashes on the bottom line when I
start a search. It only searches in folders if I explicitly direct it
(with "browse" option") to search in a specific folder.
I tried to enable and disable the indexing service (it has always been
disabled on my pc) but didn't fix it.
I also tried defrag, chkdsk /r, abd using a third party utility like
ransack search agent- it works perfectly, so I don't think its a disk
or network problem. Always logged in admin account. permissions are set
to read the entire drive.
by the way, when searching this machine from another machine on a
network, the other machine also searches only the above directories
(not the entire disk) unless using a third party utility. But the
other machine searches properly its own drive.
thanks
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