Microsoft KB Archive/194047

= FP98: No Documents Found After Performing Search Query =

Article ID: 194047

Article Last Modified on 10/3/2001

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft FrontPage 98 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q194047



For a Microsoft FrontPage 2000 version of this article, see 205710.

For a Microsoft FrontPage 97 version of this article, see 192434.



SYMPTOMS
When you perform a search, no results are returned and you may receive the following message:

No documents found. Please try again.



CAUSE
This message may appear if any of the following are true:
 * The files that contain the index information for the search component are corrupted or missing (for example, they were deleted or moved).

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 * If you are publishing to a web that uses Microsoft Index Server, the catalog file does not exist.

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 * You are searching for a word that is on the WAIS stop list.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this behavior, use one of the following methods.

NOTE: You should try Method 1 first. If Method 1 does not resolve this behavior, use Method 2. If you are using Microsoft Index Server, use Method 3.

Method 1: Recalculate Links

 * 1) Start FrontPage Explorer and open your Web.
 * 2) On the Tools menu, click Recalculate Hyperlinks.
 * 3) Rerun your search in a Web browser.

NOTE: You may need to refresh or reload the page in the Web browser.

Method 2: Reset the Dependency Databases
To reset the dependency databases used by the FrontPage Search Component, follow these steps:   In Windows Explorer, open the folder that contains your Web content. To determine where your content is stored, use the following table as a guide.

NOTE: The folders listed in the table are the default folders created when you install FrontPage. If you configured your Web server to use a different content root, select that folder instead of the one listed in the table.      Web Server                              Folder ---

FrontPage Personal Web Server          \FrontPage Webs\Content Microsoft Personal Web Server          \Webshare\Wwwroot Microsoft Internet Information Server  \InetPub\Wwwroot  Open the folder that contained the deleted page.  Open the \_vti_pvt folder and delete the following two files:      Deptodoc.btr Doctodep.btr   Open the \_vti_txt\default.wti folder. Delete the following files:      All.cat All.dct All.doc All.fmt All.fn     All.hl      All.idx All.inv All.src </li> Switch to FrontPage Explorer.</li> On the Tools menu, click Recalculate Hyperlinks.</li></ol>

Method 3: Create a Catalog File using Index Server
Set up Index Server with a catalog for the virtual server. For information about how to do this, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

183731 How to Index and Create a Catalog for a New Web Site

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MORE INFORMATION
For additional information about search problems, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

194263 FP98: Deleted Pages from Web Show up in Search Results List

185543 FP98: No Documents Found Using FrontPage 98 & Index Server

Additional query words: WAIS

Keywords: kbprb KB194047

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