element-hq
Search always shows "no results" for unencrypted and encrypted rooms
Unable to search for messages, each search message shows no results. Neither encrypted nor unencrypted rooms can be searched.
Many issues about this topic have been reported many times in sector-im / element-web. But I cannot find any solution to this because the searching feature still can't work properly.
I wonder if there is already a solution or it is still being working out since some issues closed a few years ago.
Take a look at the screenshot below： It says that "Not currently indexing messages for any room." But how could I make it available?
- OS:macOS 13.1
- Version 1.11.17
This got moved into the correct repository but this means you didn't get the form, so this report doesn't have the info we'd need to investigate. It might be easier to close this and open another bug.
Exact same issue (Message Search preferences look the same). Happens in newly created room, happens after %appdata%\Element has been cleared. Have never seen search in encrypted rooms working, no error just no results. Version: 1.11.18 (Edit: Windows 10 22H2) But as I said, this never worked on previous Versions either so first I assumed this feature is just not implemented.
Just learned some new Info on this:
It only occurs for us if folder redirection for AppData/Roaming is enabled for the Account. In this case
$env:APPDATA\Element points at \\dfs\<user-specific-path>\Element on a network drive.
Other features fo Element seem to be unaffected by this (as long as the network connection is stable).
Would be nice if search relevant files or even the whole application data path could (optionally) be stored in $env:LOCALAPPDATA
Something like app.setPath('userData', process.env.localappdata+"/Element"); at the appropriate scope, if for example, an environment variable indicates that preference.