Anyone else having trouble searching for messages?

[JoolsToo]

I'm searching for posters messages but coming up with zero even though I know they have posted.

Anyone else.

Tech, do you know about this?

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Oh glad its not just me then.

Come on techie what's up?

Yes. Reported it this morning . Tech did something, but doesn't seem to have fixed it.

mine seems to be working alright.

Thanks MrsLSG - still not working for me!

Hmm, yes I seem to have broken it. I'm an idiot. Will fix but it might take an hour or so.... sorry.

never mind there's nowt on telly

oh so this is why I couldn't finds marsy's pg thread!

JoolsToo, thanks, but it's MrLSG (shock! horror! a man on mumsnet!!).

Could be. New messages are searchable now, but anything more than a few days old isn't. We'll fix the whole thing overnight. Sorry about the messing up......

OMG! awwwwwwwwwwfully sorry!

hello, I haven't seen you before and I was so concerned to get your initials in the right order I didn't notice your were a Mr!

yes me too Jt, I thought it was just me spelling the name wrong though

and another thing tech, say you search for messages that you've posted since 06/11/06, you also get ones that you posted since 06/11/05 and 04...

hope that makes sense...

Hi Tassis,

That should be OK once we do the rebuild overnight. That was what I was fixing when I broke the whole thing....

Regards,
Tech

tech, when you've finished fixing things, do you ever end up with a screw and a small spring left on the side? My dh does all the time...

I haven't been able to check for messages for a couple of months now, think I did email at some point. It would be great if this could be fixed, thanks

just searchin someone's name for the last few days (infact any period of time) with no text isn't working, tech, FYI.

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The overnight rebuild failed... I'm having a look now...

OK, I found the problem. I did something very dumb last night that removed all the recent messages from searches.

Here's the situation now:

Searching by content or name is OK, but there's a problem with dates.

The date index is rebuilding backwards so old messages will gradually reappear if you search by date. Messages added over the last day or so should be all OK within the hour, but it will take a few hours to get right back to 2001.

Sorry for messing it up. Never try do anything at night that requires concentration.....

Nice one, Tech.

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