Search Cannot Find Files

Aug 14, 2015

I have hundreds of videos but when I try to search for them by using IN this PC the Kind:=video command the search come up empty. It simply cannot find anything I ask it to search for. I do not want to use third party search applications. I just want it to work.

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I've rebuilt the search index, which says it finished successfully, indexing 3000-something items, but the problem remains.

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I cleared the search file and rebuilt the index and it still couldn't find the files.

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Windows finds files containing 'hello'

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I press Start
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It says "Windows is still indexing some files. This might not be everything just yet."

Thing is, if I go to Indexing Options, it clearly says
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