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SteffenHNW
Jan 03, 2023Brass Contributor
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...
bperry
Copper Contributor
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.
bperry
Jan 13, 2023Copper Contributor
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.
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.
- SteffenHNWJan 16, 2023Brass Contributor
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