jbushnell1

Sure (and thanks for your help)!

Here's a random note from 2016 that I can find by scrolling back through a notebook... but when I search for a term that appears in the note title, body, and image--zero results. Pretty clear that something is amiss there...

(I've also tried the "full sync" option of holding the Shift and Option keys on my keyboard and clicking the sync wheel, but that doesn't seem to be doing the trick either.)

If I filter only for messages with "reindexing" in them, I get messages pertinent to the reindexing, but I can't really glean a sense of progress from these. The fact that the last one was maybe half an hour ago might indicate that the reindexing process is over? My searches still don't work, though, so maybe I need to reinstall and hope for the best?

Well, there's plenty of activity (this is what appears in the last five minutes or so) but most of it doesn't appear pertinent to the index build. Is there specific syntax that I could search for? Does it output a "reindexing complete"-type message ever?

For the second time in a year, Evernote's search (Mac Desktop version) has begun to fail to return results that turn up when searching in the mobile or Web version. This problem usually manifests for me after an update or a reinstall (I just scrapped 6.14 beta 2 and reinstalled my last "favorite" version, 6.11). 

Anyway, my guess is that something breaks during the build of the Full Text Search index.

I know how to locate the option to recreate the full text search index in the (hidden) Troubleshooting menu, but I find the process to be somewhat cryptic. For one thing, I don't know how long the "recreation" process is supposed to take. I have a lot of notes (upwards of 20,000) so I can appreciate that it'll take "some time," but... is it a ten-minute process? An hour? 24 hours? Do I need to leave the computer on overnight? Do I need to adjust the power management settings so it doesn't go to sleep? Will the Activity Log give me a sense as to when it is done?

Also: how long should I wait before trying it anew? If I wait an hour and search still isn't working, should I just start over?  And does that "undo" the work that I've already done? And at what point do I need to stop relying on this particular tool and instead scrape everything and just reinstall, hoping for a correct search indexing from a new installation? 

I've posted some of these questions before in other threads, but thought it might warrant a standalone thread, especially if others needed help with this arcane command.