FP2000: No Documents Found After Performing Search Query

ID: Q205710

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft FrontPage 2000

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).

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

-or-

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

Start FrontPage and open your Web.

On the Tools menu, click Recalculate Hyperlinks.

Run 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.

NOTE: If you are using a local web server, your content is located at the following locations:

Web Server	Folder
FrontPage Personal Web Server	\FrontPage Webs\Content
Microsoft Personal Web Server	\Webshare\Wwwroot
Microsoft Personal Web Server 4.0 and 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

On the Tools menu, click Recalculate Hyperlinks.

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:

Q183731How to Index and Create a Catalog for a New Web Site

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information about searches in FrontPage, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q205612FP2000: Deleted Pages from Web Show up in Search Results List

Additional query words: WAIS


Keywords          : 
Version           : WINDOWS:
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbprb

Last Reviewed: July 1, 1999