[Forum] Search Index Nightmare - Search Results are Minimal - When There Should be Many

[tChristine]

Hello,

I'm having major issues with Search - both Regular and Advanced. Any help, greatly appreciated.

Here's the lowdown:

We have about 30,000+ Posts.

All Usergroups can Search by Regular and Boolean expression.

I checked ACP > (all) Message Searching Options - and the settings look okay.

Problem 1:

I can type very unique keywords into Search, which should garner at least a few hundred results.

But, only a handful of results are generated. [??]

Problem 2:

If I try to search for Posts - prior to my VB migration (before May, 2011) - absolutely no search results are generated.

Notes:

I thought about using Maintenance > Rebuild Search Index.

However, in that section it says to use it:

"if items are showing in search results after they have been permanently deleted then emptying the index and rebuilding the search index will fix this."

And that ^ is the exact opposite of the problem I'm having.

I'm not having a problem with deleted results appearing.

I'm having issues with non-deleted / current active items not appearing.

Thanks so much,
Christina

[tChristine]

Hi,

I've waited a couple weeks, so I'm bumping this =/

[Lynne]

Did you run Rebuild Search Index after you did your initial migration? It sounds like you did not and that is why no old posts are showing up in search.

[bszopi]

What is your post viewing timeframe set for? If you only have it set to show the last 2 weeks (or similar) of posts, then I'm pretty sure that's all its going to search through. I would also recommend rebuilding the search index, even though you think its the exact opposite of what you are wanting.

[Trevor Hannant]

Also check how manysearch results you have it set to return:

AdminCP > Settings > Options > Message Searching Options > Maximum Search Results to Return