Global Search not working
I found the setting for Global Search and turned it on. I'd like to be able to search all folders (imap and my many local folders). No matter what I put in I get zero results. Is there a time period I need to wait for it to build an index? I found an older thread about this on this forum where someone was told to add a folder to the inclusion list for global search. I have tons of folders, if this is the issue, do I really have to do this for every single folder, one by one, including even my inbox?! thanks
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re :I found the setting for Global Search and turned it on.
Just in case anyone else sees this question and wants to know how you did it....
- Settings > General
- Scroll to bottom section called 'Indexing'
- select checkbox 'Enable Global Search and Indexer'
Suggest a restart of Thunderbird to make sure this preference has been correctly saved.
To check a folder is selected for Global Search:
- Right click on folder and select 'Properties'
- On 'General Information' tab
- select checkbox 'Include messages in this folder in Global Search results'
Usually, by default, all folders except Trash and Junk/Spam are auto selected.
Help Articles on how to use the 'Global Search' and repair global database file:
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/global-search
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/rebuilding-global-database
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re :I found the setting for Global Search and turned it on.
Just in case anyone else sees this question and wants to know how you did it....
- Settings > General
- Scroll to bottom section called 'Indexing'
- select checkbox 'Enable Global Search and Indexer'
Suggest a restart of Thunderbird to make sure this preference has been correctly saved.
To check a folder is selected for Global Search:
- Right click on folder and select 'Properties'
- On 'General Information' tab
- select checkbox 'Include messages in this folder in Global Search results'
Usually, by default, all folders except Trash and Junk/Spam are auto selected.
Help Articles on how to use the 'Global Search' and repair global database file:
Thanks, that was selected but a restart fixed it. Working nice now. In case you're able to do anything about it, I have a complaint about the email notifications. Two actually!
1. I detest this modern way of only giving me two options to click and get BACK to the thread! I either have to mark it as solved, or click that it doesn't help me. When often neither is the case!
2. When I do click the "solved" button, i get a 404 (405 actually) error and the page wont load, yet if I click the "this didn't help me" link, it opens fine!
Maybe I'm just old, but whatever happened to just a good old fashioned LINK to the damn thread?! :D Thanks for your help
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