[bd-users] Search broken in v1.6

[Rob -Scrape- French]

On a "pristine" installation, with no indexes built, I have the problem that
when I click on the search button, nothing happens. It doesn't build an
index, I can't search, nothing.

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 8:43 AM, DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Jason,
> I am very embarrassed about this. I inadvertently changed the index
> and it broke search against old indexes. There is no problem with 1.6,
> otherwise. If you go to:
> Tools -> Books -> Installed Books and then click on "Remove Search
> Index" (and confirm the removal). Then in the main window, recreate
> the index by clicking on "Enable Search" everything should be back to
> where you expected.
>
> The difference in the new search is that it will search for word
> stems. So searches for "judge" will also find "judges".
>
> In Him,
>        DM
>
> On Sep 13, 2008, at 6:22 PM, Jason Nah wrote:
>
> > Howdy,
> >
> > Great work... i'm not sure where to report bugs... or if there's
> > something I'm doing wrong...
> >
> > I just upgrade from 1.0.6 to 1.6 and I think search is broken. If
> > you search for 'judge' you get nothing. If you search for "blessed",
> > you get back Gen 12:2-3. But v2 doesn't even have the word blessed.
> > If I type it +blessed +poor, I don't even get one of the beatitudes
> > back... (Matt 5:3)
> >
> > I'm not sure if the search is now using root words, but I think this
> > is a bad idea. We often know verses in the translation we use, so
> > it's a better idea to use the index for that version as the key to
> > searching and if necessary, go down the morphological route if
> > necessary, but by default this shouldn't be on.
> >
> > Is there a way I can tune/fix this?
> >
> > --
> > Cheers,
> > Jason
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