Search function not working in group folders

[ciur]

Discussed in https://github.com/ciur/papermerge/discussions/667

^{Originally posted by PacketAttack-NetSecOps August 15, 2025} Hello, new user here. I'm trying to setup papermerge for a small multi-user environment. I want all users to scan to a shared group folder and not their local inbox or home folder. I created a group, and enabled the special folders: inbox and home. I then assigned my users to the group. The issue is that when i upload documents to these folders, the OCR or search function does not work. If i move the files back to a local user folder, OCR and search will work properly.

I cant seem to find anything to help me in troubleshooting this.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[ciur]

@PacketAttack-NetSecOps, what version are you using ?

[PacketAttack-NetSecOps]

3.5.2, I'm deploying using docker compose

services:
  webapp:
    image: papermerge/papermerge:3.5.2
    environment:
      PAPERMERGE__SECURITY__SECRET_KEY: 12345
      PAPERMERGE__AUTH__USERNAME: admin
      PAPERMERGE__AUTH__PASSWORD: admin
      PAPERMERGE__DATABASE__URL: postgresql://coco:jumbo@db:5432/pmgdb
      PAPERMERGE__SEARCH__URL: solr://solr:8983/pmg
      PAPERMERGE__MAIN__MEDIA_ROOT: /var/media/pmg
      PAPERMERGE__REDIS__URL: redis://redis:6379/0
      PAPERMERGE__OCR__LANG_CODES: "eng,deu"
      PAPERMERGE__OCR__DEFAULT_LANG_CODE: "eng"
    volumes:
      - media_root:/var/media/pmg
    ports:
     - "12000:80"
    depends_on:
      - db
      - redis
      - solr
  ocr_worker:
    image: papermerge/ocrworker:0.3.1
    command: worker
    environment:
      PAPERMERGE__DATABASE__URL: postgresql://coco:jumbo@db:5432/pmgdb
      PAPERMERGE__REDIS__URL: redis://redis:6379/0
      PAPERMERGE__MAIN__MEDIA_ROOT: /var/media/pmg
      OCR_WORKER_ARGS: "-Q ocr -c 2"
    depends_on:
      - redis
      - db
    volumes:
      - media_root:/var/media/pmg
  i3worker:
    image: papermerge/i3worker:0.3
    command: worker
    environment:
      PAPERMERGE__DATABASE__URL: postgresql://coco:jumbo@db:5432/pmgdb
      PAPERMERGE__SEARCH__URL: solr://solr:8983/pmg
      PAPERMERGE__REDIS__URL: redis://redis:6379/0
      I3_WORKER_ARGS: "-Q i3 -c 2"
    depends_on:
      - redis
      - db
      - solr
  path_template_worker:
    image: papermerge/path-tmpl-worker:0.4
    command: worker
    environment:
      PAPERMERGE__DATABASE__URL: postgresql://coco:jumbo@db:5432/pmgdb
      PAPERMERGE__REDIS__URL: redis://redis:6379/0
      PATH_TMPL_WORKER_ARGS: "-Q path_tmpl -c 2"
    depends_on:
      - redis
  db:
    image: postgres:16.1
    volumes:
      - pgdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data/
    environment:
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: jumbo
      POSTGRES_DB: pmgdb
      POSTGRES_USER: coco
    healthcheck:
      test: pg_isready -U $$POSTGRES_USER -d $$POSTGRES_DB
      interval: 5s
      timeout: 10s
      retries: 5
      start_period: 10s
  redis:
    image: bitnami/redis:7.2
    ports:
      - "6379:6379"
    environment:
      ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD: "yes"
  solr:
    image: solr:9.7
    ports:
     - "8983:8983"
    volumes:
      - solr_data:/var/solr
    command:
      - solr-precreate
      - pmg

volumes:
  pgdata:
  media_root:
  solr_data: