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I misconstrued Chris Prattley's advice re what to do when indexing halts
and search is unavailable. His advice was NOT, as I said, to fiddle with
file types in the Indexing Options control panel. Well, it was late at
night--His actual advice was to fiddle with OneNote PAGES. And it works,
after I stopped taking what I thought was Chris Prattley's advice and did
what he actually said. The cause of this issue seems to be OneNote
sometimes failing to mark pages as "not Indexed." OneNote may think it is
finished indexing when it hasn't. Making changes to pages apparently
brings it to OneNote's attention. So the advice is to make changes to
numerous pages. How numerous? I can't tell you. I would estimate I hit
about 15% of my pages. Very impressionistic estimate, though.
To atone for the earlier error in reportage, here's a hint I know of
independently of Chris Prattley that helps. To make changes to a page, all
you need to do is hit space and backspace. You have changed nothing, but
the application will think it needs to save, which I think must be the
same mechanism as underlies the marking process. This is confirmed to the
extent of my success using this method of changing pages in getting the
indexing to work and get Search consequently to return results and note
flags.
and search is unavailable. His advice was NOT, as I said, to fiddle with
file types in the Indexing Options control panel. Well, it was late at
night--His actual advice was to fiddle with OneNote PAGES. And it works,
after I stopped taking what I thought was Chris Prattley's advice and did
what he actually said. The cause of this issue seems to be OneNote
sometimes failing to mark pages as "not Indexed." OneNote may think it is
finished indexing when it hasn't. Making changes to pages apparently
brings it to OneNote's attention. So the advice is to make changes to
numerous pages. How numerous? I can't tell you. I would estimate I hit
about 15% of my pages. Very impressionistic estimate, though.
To atone for the earlier error in reportage, here's a hint I know of
independently of Chris Prattley that helps. To make changes to a page, all
you need to do is hit space and backspace. You have changed nothing, but
the application will think it needs to save, which I think must be the
same mechanism as underlies the marking process. This is confirmed to the
extent of my success using this method of changing pages in getting the
indexing to work and get Search consequently to return results and note
flags.