miloshapiro
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- OS
- Windows
I recently bought a new Win11 HP tower (Version 21H2, Build 22000.527) and have spent over a month getting all the software, including Microsoft 365, onto it. Before loading half a terabyte of documents onto it, I decided to test searching on it first and I'm glad I did. I copied over just a small folder with a few subfolders and files in it (.docx, .xlsx, .jpg, etc).
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As a background side-step, I want to keep all my originals on the computer but have a copy backing up to one-drive for safety and in case I want to reference them on another device. But the key thing is that the originals should all by in the ThisPC/Documents path.
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if you follow a path like "ThisPC/Documents/best buy" , there's a document called "juju.docx" . As I test, I put a fake word ("jnjn") in there and saved the document. Then, using Exploring, I searched the documents folder at ThisPC/Documents . Nothing shows up. I verify that under search options I have "All subfolders" and "File contents" checked and they are.
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The results are the same if I use the Win11 Search magnifying glass and choose "documents".
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Adding to the confusion, if I go to Exploring and search for "jnjn" at the ThisPC level, instead of ThisPC/documents, it finds the document in a folder called "C:\users\milo\OneDrive - Mycompanyname\Documents" . But again, that's only supposed to be a backup. I don't want to search onedrive unless I have a specific need to. I want my materials to be stored, updated, and indexed locally like they are on the old Win7 computer I'm writing this on.
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But if I go to "Indexing Options", it says that the three places it's going to do indexing are Microsoft Outlook, Start menu, and Users (excluding AppData). So ThisPC/Documents should fall under Users, right?
I tried re-indexing there under "Advanced Options" and that doesn't help.
It feels like there's some setting somewhere that just isn't on for indexing my non-cloud Documents folder.
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Have invested hours into this and getting nowhere. Can't make the move over to this computer if it won't support indexing the documents that I need to put there. Help, please!
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As a background side-step, I want to keep all my originals on the computer but have a copy backing up to one-drive for safety and in case I want to reference them on another device. But the key thing is that the originals should all by in the ThisPC/Documents path.
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if you follow a path like "ThisPC/Documents/best buy" , there's a document called "juju.docx" . As I test, I put a fake word ("jnjn") in there and saved the document. Then, using Exploring, I searched the documents folder at ThisPC/Documents . Nothing shows up. I verify that under search options I have "All subfolders" and "File contents" checked and they are.
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The results are the same if I use the Win11 Search magnifying glass and choose "documents".
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Adding to the confusion, if I go to Exploring and search for "jnjn" at the ThisPC level, instead of ThisPC/documents, it finds the document in a folder called "C:\users\milo\OneDrive - Mycompanyname\Documents" . But again, that's only supposed to be a backup. I don't want to search onedrive unless I have a specific need to. I want my materials to be stored, updated, and indexed locally like they are on the old Win7 computer I'm writing this on.
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But if I go to "Indexing Options", it says that the three places it's going to do indexing are Microsoft Outlook, Start menu, and Users (excluding AppData). So ThisPC/Documents should fall under Users, right?
I tried re-indexing there under "Advanced Options" and that doesn't help.
It feels like there's some setting somewhere that just isn't on for indexing my non-cloud Documents folder.
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Have invested hours into this and getting nowhere. Can't make the move over to this computer if it won't support indexing the documents that I need to put there. Help, please!
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Manufacturer/Model
- HP
- Memory
- 32G
- Mouse
- yes
- Internet Speed
- cable hi speed
- Browser
- firefox preferred, can use Chrome or Edge when need be
- Antivirus
- Kaspersky