Ebook formats are No Longer Showing - but were before

[cgrapski]

I am very frustrated - I have tried everything I can think of - but the other day, for some reason, ebooks with the extension .mobi, .azw, .azw3, and .djvu stopped being found. Even if I do a search for *.mobi - it comes up with nothing.

I didn't change anything (before that). I have been trying to fix it since. The best thing I could think of - is something got changed in the filters.

Not sure what to do - the first thing I tried (since then I have been trying to figure out any other possible solution - but this seems like it ought to work) - was to add to the list for the Document filter: ;epub;mobi;azw;azw3;djvu;

Epubs are being picked up. But other than PDFs - none of the others are now being found. I was out of date with my version - so I installed the latest version - hoping that with a new install - this would go away. But it has carried over to the new installation (new version).

I am totally confused - and very frustrated. I hope someone can provide me the solution.

[NotNull]

First guess: you enabled a search option under Menu:Search.
Make sure only Everything is enabled (so no Match Path, etc)

You can also check the statusbar as i will show if you have a filter, a search option enabled or opened an EFU file.
Double-clicking those - if enabled - will reset them to default.

[cgrapski]

Very strange. I have now gotten it to recognize .mobi. I put it into the Document list. And it is now working (but I tried that before and it wouldn't work). I also created an ebook filter - I tried ext:epub;mobi - and now got it to work. I then add pdf to it - and it gets all three. But if I add azw3 - none of them show up.

[NotNull]

So, let's see if I understood:

With the Everything filter enabled:
if you search for

ext:epub;mobi;pdf

, you find files.
if you search for

ext:epub;mobi;pdf;azw3

, you find NO files?

(please also report the searches you used)

[cgrapski]

Using the searches you just provided

The first: ext:epub;mobi;pdf - is now finding all three formats.

But the second: ext:epub;mobi;pdf;azw3 - only finds the same three as above - and no azw3.

I have also tried to get it to find djvu and azw - and neither of them work.

But I did a bit more experimenting - and I realized that even though the default Document list includes chm files and docx files - it doesn't find them either.

I also created (which is what I set out to do originally) a custom filter for ebooks - so I would not get the folders like when I use everything or document filters. It now works - with those three epub;mobi;pdf - but if I add the other two or one of them - they are still completely missing from the results. And doing an ext:azw3 comes up with nothing. Some with ext:djvu.

But ALSO when I try ext:chm and ext:docx - I get nothing (yet I have TONS of Word documents - and a number of CHM files).

[NotNull]

Those files might be on a drive or in a folder that is not indexed by Everything.
But if you saw those files i the past, that doesn't seem likely.

Try a Force Rebuild:
- Go to Menu:Tools > Options > Indexes
- Press the Force Rebuild button
- Press OK
- Check the Everything statusbar to see when re-indexing is done
- Try searching again


(My idea was to make it work in the search bar and when all is OK, save that search as a Filter (Menu:Search > Add to Filters...))

[cgrapski]

I must not have sent the follow up below - I thought I did - but I'll leave it at the bottom of my reply to your last suggestion.

I did the rebuild.

With nothing in the search bar - it comes up with 433,160 objects. But that includes only the three file types we have been discussing - pdf,epub,mobi - nothing else - except for the folders.

When I switch to the Document filter - it comes up with 124,809 objects - having excluded the folders. But only pdf,epub, and mobi - none of the other extensions that are in the default filter. I get the same result using my custom Ebooks filter.

So I then checked something I hadn't before. I try the other filters. With nothing in the search bar - I try Audio, Compressed, Executable, Picture and Video - and they all come up empty. I try adding the letter "a" to the search bar - and none of those find any files at all.

The only other filter that is producing results - is the Folder filter. Both when I leave it blank and when I put "a" into the search bar.

I am very confused.

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Just to follow up - if this may help - I have now tried simply searching a single directory. If I open the directory in windows explorer - it returns a total of 424 files. Included in them are mostly PDF, EPUB and MOBI files (in that folder - only one MOBI file) - but it also finds one AZW file and five djvu files. Adding up - correctly - to 424.

If I search in Everything - using the Document filter - it finds 417 files (thus the 7 files of the other two formats are not being found) - when adding the 7 you get the correct number of 424.

If I switch filters to Everything - I get 418 objects as the result - because I have a folder in it as well. So it finds the folder and the three formats - but none of the others.

If I use my custom Ebooks filter - which I have set to search for ext:epub;mobi;pdf;azw;djvu - it also only comes up with the same 417 as the Documents filter finds. It doesn't see the azw or the djvu files.

If I put nothing in the search bar - but switch to the Document filter - I get a large number of files - but only those three formats: epub, mobi, and pdf.

Yet I am using the default set of extensions - but adding at the end three more - epub, mobi, azw3

ext:c;chm;cpp;csv;cxx;doc;docm;docx;dot;dotm;dotx;h;hpp;htm;html;hxx;ini;java;lua;mht;mhtml;odt;pdf;potx;potm;ppam;ppsm;ppsx;pps;ppt;pptm;pptx;rtf;sldm;sldx;thmx;txt;vsd;wpd;wps;wri;xlam;xls;xlsb;xlsm;xlsx;xltm;xltx;xml;epub;mobi;azw3

And it find all of my PDFs and all of my MOBI and EPUBs - but none of the AZW3s - or even any of the other formats from the default list. So no CHMs, no DOCs, no DOCXs, no PPT, or XLS, no RTFs, no XML files - TXT files are even not showing up.

[NotNull]

That is strange, indeed.

Did you configure anything (inclusion or exclusion) under Menu:Tools > Options > Indexes > Exclude?

To make sure, also check the settings for your drive:

• Go to Menu:Tools > Options > Indexes > NTFS
• In the Local NTFS volumes: box, click on your drive
• Is there anything configured in the Include only: field for that volume?

(That is all for me today, as it is past midnight on my side of the planet)

[cgrapski]

Thanks so much for all your help. That was the problem - when I was trying (for my first time) to create a custom filter for ebooks - that would exclude folders - I typed three formats into the Include only files box under Exclude.

I cleared it out - and now that has solved the problem.

I never would have figured it out without your help.

Thank you so much.

[NotNull]

You're welcome!

Don't forget to add CBR and CBZ to your list
(a longer list of ebook formats can be found here. Not all might be useful to you, though).