Why are some "Personal Books" not indexed for searching?

I have dozens of Personal Books, hundreds. Until now, I have only used them in a way to find, open, and read. Weird, right? Anyway, I am doing a search this evening, and finding that some of my PB's aren't being searched or weren't indexed. They are there but do not show up in the search results.

I am a Biblical Archaeology student and so more than a few of my books, articles, and whitepapers reference Jericho. but when I do a search, only two, out of at least 4/5 show up with hits. Am I doing something wrong?

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MJ. Smith

Any chance they are images not texts? This happens if you download PDF's of some older materials to make into PB's.

Brent Hoefling

nope. text from Word Documents.

Brent Hoefling

There may have been images in the document, but the notes, stories, writing is all text.

(I know what you mean though, I had a technical PDF with a lot of Hebrew, all the Hebrew was turned into images - I was very disappointed.)

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

Wonder if Personal Book (PB) upload and search/index have a correlation ?

Encountered a PB metadata upload bug that silently disabled PB index use => Bug: 7.2 RC 3 Regression: Personal Book Discourse Glossary so am using Scan command to copy compiled PB resource files into new installation(s). FYI: my library has 33 PB's (last PB compile was 2 Jul 2018)

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Dave Hooton

finding that some of my PB's aren't being searched or weren't indexed. They are there but do not show up in the search results.

You can rebuild the personal books index with the command Rebuild Personal Book Index (it won't take very long). Individual books can be rebuilt using reindex title e.g. reindex my personal book.

Brent Hoefling

doing that now...

Brent Hoefling

nope. didn't work. the indexing didn't take very long.

I opened a PB in one window. then opened a basic search for all text in that PB, then entered a simple search for something I cut/pasted from the open PB. 0 results. Doing a full rebuild now.

Bradley Grainger (Logos)

In this instance, it may actually help to delete the %LOCALAPPDATA%\Logos\Data\(random)\PersonalBookIndex folder entirely (then restart the application).

If you can, save the LogosIndexer.log file so we can verify that all PBBs are indexed properly. If search still doesn't work, post the log file and the resource ID of the resource you're searching.

Finally, it's possible that there's something about that PBB that stops it being indexed properly. We'd probably need a copy of your DOCX file to build and index the PBB ourselves and see what's going on.

Brent Hoefling

In this instance, it may actually help to delete the %LOCALAPPDATA%\Logos\Data\(random)\PersonalBookIndex folder entirely (then restart the application).

If you can, save the LogosIndexer.log file so we can verify that all PBBs are indexed properly. If search still doesn't work, post the log file and the resource ID of the resource you're searching.

Finally, it's possible that there's something about that PBB that stops it being indexed properly. We'd probably need a copy of your DOCX file to build and index the PBB ourselves and see what's going on.

Thank you. that did it.

I also discovered that there is no group, or automatic tag or collection specifically pointing to them. So I spent some time to tag each one and discovered that one of my older PB's said something about not having a license to open it. Wait, what?! I created that one again and it now shows up too (and is indexed).

Thank you for your help.

Mark

In this instance, it may actually help to delete the %LOCALAPPDATA%\Logos\Data\(random)\PersonalBookIndex folder entirely (then restart the application).

Where do we find this file?

Are there benefits to doing this even if we do not know for sure if we have this problem?