troubles with searching

Lundi · 11-02-2015, 06:07 PM

Hello everyone,

I having problems with searching in calibre. When I try to find a title for example "Spanish" than I only can find one book. He is not searching for the other books with the title beginning "Spanish" I have this for about 5 months,before I did'nt have this before. I got all the books. I use windows 8.1 and the latest. I thing this is a setting problem. But I don't know where the find it to solve this problemen.
Could someone help me?

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards.

eschwartz · 11-03-2015, 10:58 AM

Searching works fine for me. We'll need more to go on than "it doesn't work".

Can you describe the specific steps you are doing? Search terms and all?
Before and after screenshots?

Is it possible you are seeing all books, with only the matching books highlighted -- and there is only one highlighted book in view ATM?
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=237884

theducks · 11-03-2015, 11:40 AM

Once again, eschwartz hit upon the most common issue.

I will toss in the next one: Title Sort incorrect (Red in the metadata editor)

Get the Quality check plugin and run the metadata checks related to sorts (many of the rest are recommended to aid in beating you Library into consistency

)

Another possible issue: Non ASCII characters in the title word (the QC PI has a test for that one)

BetterRed · 11-04-2015, 10:20 PM

@Lundi - are you in a Virtual Library (VL), searching works within the current VL.

BR

theducks · 11-04-2015, 10:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BetterRed

@Lundi - are you in a Virtual Library (VL), searching works within the current VL.

BR

Or other restriction invoked (from the VL button) from a Saved Search

If the button has a red minus next to it, Searches will be restricted to what shows in the current book list below

11-02-2015, 06:07 PM	#1
Lundi Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2015 Device: Kobo H2O	troubles with searching Hello everyone, I having problems with searching in calibre. When I try to find a title for example "Spanish" than I only can find one book. He is not searching for the other books with the title beginning "Spanish" I have this for about 5 months,before I did'nt have this before. I got all the books. I use windows 8.1 and the latest. I thing this is a setting problem. But I don't know where the find it to solve this problemen. Could someone help me? Thanks in advance. Kind regards.

11-03-2015, 10:58 AM	#2
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85397180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	Searching works fine for me. We'll need more to go on than "it doesn't work". Can you describe the specific steps you are doing? Search terms and all? Before and after screenshots? Is it possible you are seeing all books, with only the matching books highlighted -- and there is only one highlighted book in view ATM? https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=237884 Last edited by eschwartz; 11-03-2015 at 11:00 AM.

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11-03-2015, 11:40 AM	#3
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 30,451 Karma: 58055868 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	Once again, eschwartz hit upon the most common issue. I will toss in the next one: Title Sort incorrect (Red in the metadata editor) Get the Quality check plugin and run the metadata checks related to sorts (many of the rest are recommended to aid in beating you Library into consistency ) Another possible issue: Non ASCII characters in the title word (the QC PI has a test for that one)

11-04-2015, 10:20 PM	#4
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,006 Karma: 27620706 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@Lundi - are you in a Virtual Library (VL), searching works within the current VL. BR