Weird results for search

[Guest]

Hi everyone,
I have a folder with several word files i have uses a macro to change
company's name in those file , now all names have changed to a new name but
when i use windows search and use the old name to search in those files all
of them show up. ( basically windows search tells me all the files still have
the privios words in them which is not correct) how can this happen and what
is the reason? by the way i didn't have writing access to this folder until
IT gave me access to run this macro.

 

[Bob I]

I suspect you are running Indexing, and since you Indexed the files
BEFORE you replaced the contents of the files, it index catalog has the
old data. You will need to correct the situation using any of several
methods. Clear the index and re-index, turn off indexing, or don't
fiddle with the guts of a file(use open edit, save to force an update to
the index).

 

[Guest]

Thank you Bob. acctually it was a very intersting reason behind this . The
old name of our company was part of each files properties\summary and Windows
search was looking at those names !!

 

[Bob I]

You're welcome. I presume you've tracked down and made the rest of the
necessary edits?