Search problems

First, I am running Windows 10 1809 as updated last week.

I can't say for certain that this behavior started after the last update,
but whenever I do a search in a file explorer window, and highlight one of
the finds and select open file location it opens Desktop instead of
something like D:\ebooks\[author]\[title].

Is anyone else seeing this behavior? And how do I fix it, if I can?

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 04 Jun 2019 03:34:59 GMT, lonelydad
wrote:

First, I am running Windows 10 1809 as updated last week.

I can't say for certain that this behavior started after the last update,
but whenever I do a search in a file explorer window, and highlight one of
the finds and select open file location it opens Desktop instead of
something like D:\ebooks\[author]\[title].

Is anyone else seeing this behavior? And how do I fix it, if I can?


How do you try to open the file?

lonelydad wrote:
First, I am running Windows 10 1809 as updated last week.

I can't say for certain that this behavior started after the last update,
but whenever I do a search in a file explorer window, and highlight one of
the finds and select open file location it opens Desktop instead of
something like D:\ebooks\[author]\[title].

Is anyone else seeing this behavior? And how do I fix it, if I can?

You might check and see if any other mechanism leads
to the Desktop being referenced.

The OS has the ability to open a Default Folder every
time that Explorer is opened.

https://www.online-tech-tips.com/win...er-windows-10/

You can pass an argument to Explorer, and perhaps
an argument is being bound to Explorer somehow by the
calling sequence, which causes the wrong thing to open.

explorer Desktop foldername1 # takes first argument only

*******

The simplistic answer would be to open Control Panels,
Indexing Options, and use the "Rebuild Index" option. But
at a guess, I'm guessing that some peripheral thing, outside
of searches and indexes, is somehow tainting this process.
Maybe the "ebooks" is a Junction or a Library or some other
weirdness. There are many constructs that could be
accidentally or intentionally involved.

One way to check it out, would be to use Sysinternals.com
Process Monitor, and do a trace of calls when you use this feature.
And verify what-all happens, when the Desktop opens. Stop
the trace and have a look around in the trace, for evidence
of skulduggery.

If the problem really is in the Index, then the Process Monitor
trace is going to go to the Desktop "Like Magic", without
any intermediate steps. Skullduggery should at least have
some suspicious registry accesses.

Paul

On 04/06/2019 04:34, lonelydad wrote:
First, I am running Windows 10 1809 as updated last week.

I can't say for certain that this behavior started after the last update,
but whenever I do a search in a file explorer window, and highlight one of
the finds and select open file location it opens Desktop instead of
something like D:\ebooks\[author]\[title].

Is anyone else seeing this behavior? And how do I fix it, if I can?

I am using 1809 and open file location is working correctly.

lonelydad wrote in
.28:

First, I am running Windows 10 1809 as updated last week.

I can't say for certain that this behavior started after the last
update, but whenever I do a search in a file explorer window, and
highlight one of the finds and select open file location it opens
Desktop instead of something like D:\ebooks\[author]\[title].

Is anyone else seeing this behavior? And how do I fix it, if I can?


I believe I've fixed the problem. One suggestion was to reindex the search
file. When I went to do that, I saw that the disk I have most of the files
I search for wasn't in the search tree. I know it was there at one time, so
I don't know why it wasn't there now. I readded it, and told the system to
reindex everything. It's still reindexing, but it apparently got far enough
that the test search I just ran worked like it was supposed to.

Thanks to all for your suggestions.