Windows 7: Windows Search finds unexisting files

IMAyNeed · 26 Jul 2012

Folder settings is set to show hidden files and folders and also I checked by disabling protect system files option.

I made a search in a folder to find some files with a specific extension. Some files, which I moved to another harddisk some time ago, showed up. I tried to delete them, they are not deletable because they are not there ("Could not find this item, locate and try again" error).

Now, what is the problem here? Windows Search Index or something else?

DavidW7ncus · 26 Jul 2012

You could try rebuilding the index.
Index - Rebuild

IMAyNeed · 26 Jul 2012

Thanks! I hope it works!

DavidW7ncus · 26 Jul 2012

You're welcome, and let us know if it fixes the issue!

IMAyNeed · 26 Jul 2012

Yes, it did. I just checked. Thank you.

DavidW7ncus · 26 Jul 2012

Great, glad you got it sorted and thanks for posting back !

Thanks to Brink for the tutorial!

IMAyNeed · 26 Jul 2012

Always (Thanks again Brink). His tutorials always helped me to solve problems or improve usage.

Windows 7: Windows Search finds unexisting files

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