No results with full word. WDS 2.6.5.5378

Hi

Sometimes I get "no items found" when I enter a word. However, if I leave out the last letter of the word, I get the correct result. This affects only some words, but I cannot see any pattern to this.

I have seen several posts, but no resolution, on microsoft.public.msn.search with this same problem. It also occurs on machines with a German keyboard.

Can you help me to resolve this issue?

I have a WinXP-SP2 machine with a Swiss German keyboard, I am in a workgroup, and I am logged in as administrator.

With kind regards, Matthias Kl?y

[591 byte] By [mklaey] at [2008-2-13]
# 1

Please try the latest release of WDS 2.6.6 located at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/desktopsearch and let me know if this problem still exists.

Thanks,

David Peng (MSFT)

DavidPeng-MSFT at 2007-8-31 > top of Msdn Tech,Windows Search Technologies,Windows Desktop Search Help...
# 2

Hi David

I have moved on to Windows Desktop Search Version 3, but I still observe the very same problem. Would it make sense to return to WDS 2.6.6?

With kind regards

Matthias Kl?y

mklaey at 2007-8-31 > top of Msdn Tech,Windows Search Technologies,Windows Desktop Search Help...
# 3

Can you describe what search query you used and what is the actual result from that query. Then also let me know what you expect that query to return?

Thanks,

David Peng (MSFT)

DavidPeng-MSFT at 2007-8-31 > top of Msdn Tech,Windows Search Technologies,Windows Desktop Search Help...
# 4

The query is just the german word "fangfrage" which means in englisch "trick question".

If I enter the full word, I get "Nothing found in All Locations for query 'fangfrage'"

If I enter just "fangfrag", I get 17 results. These are ASCII text files with extension .txt or .log, and one Word 2003 .doc document.

The full word "fangfrage" with the "e" at the end is actually contained in all these files. This seems to me to be the correct search result.

The characters just following the word "fangfrage" are "!", "?", ")", ",", "n", <space> and <end-of-line>.

Thank you for your help

Matthias Kl?y

mklaey at 2007-8-31 > top of Msdn Tech,Windows Search Technologies,Windows Desktop Search Help...
# 5

Are you running English XP w/ german language pack? If you have documents set to German LCID and search using English LCID, you might get an unexpected result such as you described. can you confirm this?

Thanks,

David Peng (MSFT)

DavidPeng-MSFT at 2007-8-31 > top of Msdn Tech,Windows Search Technologies,Windows Desktop Search Help...
# 6

I am running englisch XP-SP2 without any MUI package for the OS installed.

In "Control Panel / Regional and Language options", on the tab "Regional Options", "Standards and Formats" is set to "German (Switzerland)", and "Location" is set to "Switzerland", and the "Default input language" is set to "German (Switzerland)" and Keyboard "Swiss German". On the "Advanced" tab, "Language for non-Unicode" programs is set to "English (United States)"

I do have the german language pack installed for Office 2003, however, it is normally set to english. I only very occasionally switch to german.

Matthias Kl?y

mklaey at 2007-8-31 > top of Msdn Tech,Windows Search Technologies,Windows Desktop Search Help...