Search working oddly

technomom · 07-23-2012, 04:48 PM

Lately when I do a search, instead of just showing the items that match the search and nothing else, everything is still shown, and the matching items are just highlit. I have a lot of books in Calibre, and it's difficult to find the search results when there's no way to "find next" for the search results.

I had this problem before with Calibre, uninstalled it completely, installed a new copy - and now it's back. I'm not entirely sure what happened, except that I used the Find Duplicates plugin (which is wonderful) both times. I have custom columns set up now and I'd really like to avoid going through the whole uninstall, reinstall thing again.

Any suggestions? Has this happened to anyone else? I've put a screen capture at http://technomom.com/calibresearch.jpg in case my description is unclear.

Thanks!
Cyn

itimpi · 07-23-2012, 05:29 PM

There is a button just to the right of the Search text field that toggles between filter and highlight mode for search results. I suspect you accidentally clicked it.

kiwidude · 07-23-2012, 05:38 PM

Just to explain what happened - if you use Find Duplicates, then by default it will put calibre into that "highlight search" mode (it is not the case that you necessarily accidentally clicked on it).

If when you are done working with Find Duplicates you choose its "Clear duplicate results" option, OR you hit the ESC key, OR you click on the clear search button to the right of the search bar then calibre will automatically go back to whatever highlighting mode you had previously (as well as resetting search restrictions etc). Any of those should be your preferred ways of exiting search results and going back to doing normal calibre operations to avoid hitting this problem again.

itimpi is spot on in explaining how to toggle the highlighting search mode, but it is likely not the only thing that needs resetting when exiting Find Duplicates "mode".

technomom · 07-23-2012, 05:53 PM

Thank you both!

07-23-2012, 04:48 PM	#1
technomom Connoisseur Posts: 54 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Atlanta, GA, US Device: Kindle Colorsoft & Paperwhite, iPad Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max	Search working oddly Lately when I do a search, instead of just showing the items that match the search and nothing else, everything is still shown, and the matching items are just highlit. I have a lot of books in Calibre, and it's difficult to find the search results when there's no way to "find next" for the search results. I had this problem before with Calibre, uninstalled it completely, installed a new copy - and now it's back. I'm not entirely sure what happened, except that I used the Find Duplicates plugin (which is wonderful) both times. I have custom columns set up now and I'd really like to avoid going through the whole uninstall, reinstall thing again. Any suggestions? Has this happened to anyone else? I've put a screen capture at http://technomom.com/calibresearch.jpg in case my description is unclear. Thanks! Cyn

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07-23-2012, 05:29 PM	#2
itimpi Wizard Posts: 4,553 Karma: 950151 Join Date: Nov 2008 Device: Sony PRS-950, iphone/ipad (Marvin/iBooks/QuickReader)	There is a button just to the right of the Search text field that toggles between filter and highlight mode for search results. I suspect you accidentally clicked it.

07-23-2012, 05:38 PM	#3
kiwidude Calibre Plugins Developer Posts: 4,729 Karma: 2197770 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kindle Oasis	Just to explain what happened - if you use Find Duplicates, then by default it will put calibre into that "highlight search" mode (it is not the case that you necessarily accidentally clicked on it). If when you are done working with Find Duplicates you choose its "Clear duplicate results" option, OR you hit the ESC key, OR you click on the clear search button to the right of the search bar then calibre will automatically go back to whatever highlighting mode you had previously (as well as resetting search restrictions etc). Any of those should be your preferred ways of exiting search results and going back to doing normal calibre operations to avoid hitting this problem again. itimpi is spot on in explaining how to toggle the highlighting search mode, but it is likely not the only thing that needs resetting when exiting Find Duplicates "mode".

07-23-2012, 05:53 PM	#4
technomom Connoisseur Posts: 54 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Atlanta, GA, US Device: Kindle Colorsoft & Paperwhite, iPad Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max	Thank you both!

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