Anyone else having a problem with the search function?

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1989 300CE Astralsilber/Schwarz
1992 300CE Schwarz/Schwarz

Just used Search to find this post.

Doesn't work for me either. This new software is awful and not user friendly at all. Wish there was some way to get back to the old format. The colors look good, but unfortunately that is not soothing enough when you have a problem.

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AJ
82 300D
81 240D
76 450SE
86 300SDL

Didn't work for me either.....

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1986 560 SEL (159K miles)

Neither for me... the forum is almost useless without search.
Bruno

The email notification for subscribed threads isn't working for me. It was OK when MBshop came online briefly earlier this week. When it came back the second time, no dice.

Perhaps they're still tweaking it. Although I do like it for the most part, just takes some getting used to.

just could not resist to voice my opinion on this thread. All that I read is "It does not work for me"...guys, what do you mean? it does not work? Pls be more specific so that the people that can do something about it can be useful. I have used the search and it works well for me.

any error message that you get? can you describe the behaviour?

For both the general search and the "search this forum" panels. any entry I search on gets a white internet error page of "Cannot Display this Page" Kind of like the old "error 404" page.

Give it a try.

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Norm in NJ
Next oil change at 230,000miles

I was doing some fine tuning on the server last night and today.
Please try the search function again.

NOTE-
MAKE SURE ALL WORDS IN YOUR SEARCH ARE AT LEAST 3 LETTERS IN LENGTH. The search function will not work otherwise. Don't use "a", "at" , "to", etc in your search.

If you still have problems, please answer the following:

1) What operating system are you using? (Win2k, WinXP, MacOSX, etc)

2) What browser are you using? (IE, Netscape, Mozilla, etc)

3) What errors are you getting?

4) Do you always get the error or just sometimes?


Thanks,

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Bill Wood - Retired Webmaster
My Personal Website
1998 Mercedes E430
2010 Toyota Sequoia
My Photo Albums

Bill,

I can no longer do a search either. I am running Windows XP and Internet Explorer. I receive the Cannot Display this Page message everytime that I have tried to search. I have tried the search pull down box and the new box that is always on the screen. I have also used the advanced search to no avail. Hope this helps.

Tom

I'm also running XP and IE6. I just did a search using 4 words and it didn't work at all. I removed one of the 4 words - thus searching on 3 words (all of which had 4 or more letters) - and it worked just fine.

I've not retested to confirm but see if it works for you with 3 or less words.

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JD

I have tried one, two, three and four words and still get the Error message page. I have been gone for a week and never had any problems with the search function on the old forum format.

thanks for helping,
Tom

Make sure of the following:
- no word is less than 3 letters
- no word can be more than 20 letters

Try doing a simple search for the word "mercedes" and see if the search function returns anything.

If these search problems continue, I will take the Shop Forum down for a day and rebuild the search table.

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Bill Wood - Retired Webmaster
My Personal Website
1998 Mercedes E430
2010 Toyota Sequoia
My Photo Albums

I was able to duplicate the search problem.

The search index will have to be rebuilt.
I'll take the Shop Forum down sometime for about 8 hours and fix it.

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Bill Wood - Retired Webmaster
My Personal Website
1998 Mercedes E430
2010 Toyota Sequoia
My Photo Albums

Did a search with "mercedes". The following error message has been returned, as it always did whenever I used search: "Safari can’t open the page “http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/search.php” because it could not load any data from this location."
I use OSX.3.5 with latest Safari 1.2.3 (v125.9), however I get similar error messages with Explorer 5.2 for Mac or Mozilla 1.7.
Regards, Bruno