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Vista Search Feature

Oct 30, 2007 4:41AM PDT

This to me is one of Vista's greatest features,but I have a small problem that in the standard "music folder" it will not locate anything.Regardless what I type in the "search box" it comes up "no items found".What puzzles me is this is the only "folder" that it does not work in.How can I correct this minor glitch?

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Maybe You've Got Bad Music.. Just Kidding...
Oct 30, 2007 6:05AM PDT

Sorry Ken...

Back to business.

ARe you referring to the blue" "Music Folder" in "Personal Folder" directory? If so, then the "Music Folder" is actually a "Search Folder", more like a shortcut to somewhere else.. The actual location of the stored music is probably at "C:\Users\bkelly\Music".

Have you checked there instead?

Hope this helps.

Grif

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Music Folder
Oct 30, 2007 9:04AM PDT

Grif..nice to see you keeping an I on this forum.I checked 3 paths Grif..Ken\music and c:|users\ken\music both routes take me to the "music folder" where I do have actual "music files".I also tried to check for that "music shortcut" you referred to and did find it in Ken\links along with 5 other "shortcuts".I hate taking up your time on this,but there must be some little I haven't got right (although never made any changes)that "search" does not come up with anything in the "music folder".I have confirmed it isn't a "ghost folder" cause when I click on a "music file" it loads and plays in my WMP.Maybe you can think of something.

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defrag, error check, registry repair
Oct 30, 2007 12:18PM PDT

hope the problem isn't any deeper then this. If this doesn't fix it data corruption might be the problems. Perhaps a system reboot is in your future. I'd just live with it. Good luck.

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Just to be on the safe side
Oct 30, 2007 12:23PM PDT

You may wish to run a diagnostic on the Hard drive independent of the error checker. Most HD manufactures provide this software at there support sites. Your need your HD specifications to download the software. See these in device manager. You may have bad sectors.

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Just to be on the safe side
Oct 31, 2007 3:04AM PDT

Dango...I carried out two of the maintenance items,and nothing irregular showed up.I have yet to source the hard drive mftr. details.My thinking is if it was a deep rooted problem then it would have an overall affect on the "search feature",which has been isolated to this one "music folder".To double check I tried the main search box after hitting "start" and the only thing it pulls up is one file with a .doc extention nothing else.By the way the local "search box" in the folder will bring this file up also.It seems blinded to everything else in the folder.