Smart Groups and "is not indexed"?

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Hi-

I had a reason to create a Smart Group with the query: “instance IS NOT indexed”

This returned the PDFs I wanted to find, but I noticed that the Inbox and (I think) all of my Tag Groups were returned as well.

It’s a simple matter to add another criterion to eliminate these hits, but I wonder why the Inbox and Tag Groups were returned, and not my “regular” Groups?

Best, Charles

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Curious, as the same smart group gives me tag groups as well as folder groups. What happens if you switch the instance to ‘is indexed’-do folder groups appear in the results?

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Over here both groups and tags are returned too. Are your groups excluded from searching?

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Well, checking today, it seems as though the Smart Group returns literally everything that’s not indexed, including Smart groups. Yesterday, I also noticed that I got hits from my Inbox when I’d narrowed my search to a particular Group in another database.

But I was having trouble with a crashing helper application, so I’ll chalk it all up to that.

:slight_smile:

Charles