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Details about File Search

From Seafile 12.0, there is two search engines has supported by Seafile:

You can follow one of above two engines to enable your Seafile Pro server's search function

Common problems

How to rebuild the index if something went wrong

You can rebuild search index by running:

docker exec -it seafile bash
cd /opt/seafile/seafile-server-latest
./pro/pro.py search --clear
./pro/pro.py search --update

cd /opt/seafile/seafile-server-latest
./pro/pro.py search --clear
./pro/pro.py search --update

Tip

If this does not work, you can try the following steps:

  1. Stop Seafile
  2. Remove the old search index rm -rf pro-data/search
  3. Restart Seafile
  4. Wait one minute then run ./pro/pro.py search --update

I get no result when I search a keyword

The search index is updated every 10 minutes by default. So before the first index update is performed, you get nothing no matter what you search.

To be able to search immediately,

  • Make sure you have started Seafile Server
  • Update the search index manually:
docker exec -it seafile bash
cd /opt/seafile/seafile-server-latest
./pro/pro.py search --update

cd /opt/seafile/seafile-server-latest
./pro/pro.py search --update

Encrypted files cannot be searched

This is because the server cannot index encrypted files, since they are encrypted.