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Copper Contributor

Jan 03, 2023

Empty library search - Sharepoint online

Hi, 24h ago, I created a document library and added some Word documents. I can find these documents with the website search, but if I use the search in document library, the results are always em...

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SteffenHNW

Copper Contributor

Jan 10, 2023

Hi @SageEdsall and @bperry ,

24h after the reindex it looks like it doesn't help. But Microsoft support says it can be 72h.

If the search isn't working in 48h, I will reupload the files.

Greets, Steffen

bperry

Copper Contributor

Jan 10, 2023

SteffenHNW - Thanks for the update.

I received a response from Microsoft Support instructing me to run the repairSPOSite cmdlet.

Repair-SPOSite (Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell) | Microsoft Learn

I am hesitant to run that on one of the document libraries where this has been noticed due to the size. There are 10's of thousands of documents in it.

That said, I am going to run it on a smaller site and I'll report the results here.

SteffenHNW
Copper Contributor
Jan 16, 2023
bperry

The reindex didn't work.
I had to reupload the files between 28/12 and 06/01.
Thanks all for looking into it. I'm sad we didn't find a better solution.

Steffen
bperry
Copper Contributor
Jan 13, 2023
The repair command didn't work. I'm done troubleshooting and moving on.

We have just been making copies of the files/folders missing from "document library" search results. Then we delete the original one. The copies show up fine in the search results.