Search Function for My Books Not Working

It's not bringing up books I know are in the collection--I've searched by the author's name that is also the title and by isbn which I copied and pasted out of the record itself. I tried changing the search parameters to all fields and title/author fields. I've also searched generic terms like "american" that i know are in multiple records--no results. I tried logging out and back in and it's still doing it.

It will, however, bring up another record by the same author--the difference being that the record was created today.

you posted your problem in bug collectors which is where problems should be posted.

you don't need to post it in multiple locations.

TPTB will see it & will reply... or someone will.... but you may have to wait.

especially if you don't see any of TPTB are posting, then they may be busy with RL stuff.

Edited to add, please forgive my tone... I shouldn't post when I have a bad headache.

I am hoping someone will see my post too. My search window on my home page screen increasingly stops working altogether (or at least past the five minute point of waiting). I have have reindexed my books, which took a long time (I have a big library). Then the search window worked just fine--for the next three books and then stopped working again. This is NOT my first time noticing the unresponsive search window. In the past I just assumed that it was a busy time. This problem now happens somewhat regularly--I can't count on working in LibraryThing for more than 30 minutes without the search function discontinuing. Other elements of LibraryThing work just fine. If I see a title in the ten books listed on my home page, I can click on the title and bring it up. If I search for the same title--nothing.

I am having difficulty finding books in my library. I'll do a your books "search your library" and get no hits. But, I know the book is there. Not all books, but many books do not come up for a search. In order to find them, I have to click on "your books" and then click on the "titles" or "author" and then search via the page number. It takes way longer to check whether I have already catalogued a book or not. Is this happening to anyone else?

This is a very old topic.

>4 SunshineMS: What are some of the failed searches in "Your books" that aren't finding the titles you want? I assume you're searching "All collections" (checking the Collections drop-down menu, on the left of the Top Bar on the page), since you mention being able to sort and browse to find the titles, yes?

I've just cleared your caches and reindexed your catalog, if you want to try some of your previously failed searches again to see if that helped? If not, pass along your searches that are failing and I can take a closer look. Thanks.

I know this topic is older, and I'm not sure if someone can help me with this. The "Search My Library" usually works really well with my books' barcodes. However, anything that I added today is not coming up when I search the barcode even though I see the book listed in my library. Even when I try to search by title it doesn't come up. All of the books prior to today come up just fine. Any suggestions? Thanks!

>7 MCADirector: Can you give a book example?

>8 gilroy: Yes! "The Cool Bean" by Jory John 9781338757293

>10 MCADirector: You just added it to your catalog today, it probably hasn't indexed yet which is why search doesn't find it. Other books you added today also fail a search. You can either be patient or reindex your books manually via this link -> https://www.librarything.com/elasticsearch_reindex_books.php

>7 MCADirector: There's a bug report for this problem here: https://www.librarything.com/topic/352411

Search in 'My Library' doesn't work on some books. Apparently reported by other users already. Very frustrating. Book is in library when browsing. Am in with 1200 books. How is this possible?

>13 Wouter64: Can you provide some examples? What books are you searching for that aren't being found?

Book title: 'Danzig', book author: 'Grass'.
Read some other talk. If indeed it is a matter of 'reindexing', no issue to have to wait e.g. an hour, are even 24 hours. Just want to know.

Confirmed, searching for danzig in Wouter64's catalog doesn't find this:

https://www.librarything.com/work/34176052/details/287163586

Seems entry date was today. This is almost certainly a matter of reindexing, and a wait will fix it.

Our catalog search index fell behind yesterday, and we're running extra resources into it to catch it up this morning. It should be all caught up by mid-morning (11am Eastern-ish). >13 Wouter64: It looks like your searches should be caught up, now, but let us know if you're still seeing any quirks.

Searches working properly. Thanks for the support!

Indexing still slow? My most recently added book (Soul Music by Terry Prachett from 5/25) is still not showing up when searching for either author or title.

It's one book, and the most recent one, and it does show up in browsing the catalog or by tag. So I don't particularly mind waiting, but in case it's symptomatic of something else I thought I better mention it.

Another data point: I added two G. K. Chesterton books on the 25th, for a total of 4 in my library, but searching on Chesterton only yeilds two; the newly added ones do not appear in the results. If I go to his author page, and click the link there, all four show up just fine.

Update: search now brings up the expected results (for the first time since I started checking daily).

>20 hipdeep: I'm getting it now if you want to check again?

>23 kristilabrie: Yes, showing up now. Thanks.