More books showing in sidebar than exist in the my library

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More books showing in sidebar than exist in the my library

1CNMusicLib
Jul 25, 2024, 11:53 pm

I initially wanted to import our entire library, then go back and add missing details. At some point, we realized it would actually be easier to start cataloging from scratch and paste in the few details to each book that we wouldn't get automatically from the add books search that LibraryThing does automatically.

As a result, we deleted our entire library.

Now as we have only added 29 books so we can test and make sure everything is working right, when we do a search, the right hand sidebar lists number of books with similarities, but those number are far greater than what we actually now have in our library. For example, searching for the word "memory" returns only 1 book in the main screen, which is correct. However, the sidebar says there are 41 matches in our stacks. The problem is we only have 29 books in our entire library now, none of which are in the stacks -- we've started with the reference section, there are zero books in our stacks.

Help :)

Chris

2SandraArdnas
Jul 26, 2024, 12:18 pm

>1 CNMusicLib: I'm guessing it is some caching issue. If it doesn't go away soon, or if it already has been more than a day, contact staff from the bottom of any page, and they can manually reindex

3jjwilson61
Jul 27, 2024, 11:48 am

>2 SandraArdnas: I don't think it's a caching issue, just that the site wide search indexes take 24 hours or more to refresh due to their enormous size and that LT doesn't have the resources of Google