FP2000: No Documents Found After Performing Search Query

• 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

1. Start FrontPage and open your Web.



2. On the Tools menu, click Recalculate Hyperlinks.



3. 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

1. 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




2. Open the folder that contained the deleted page.



3. Open the \_vti_pvt folder and delete the following two files:
   
   Deptodoc.btr
   Doctodep.btr



4. 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



5. On the Tools menu, click Recalculate Hyperlinks.

Method 3: Create a Catalog File using Index Server

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