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particleview search not working
I started up particleview this morning and found that the search feature isn’t working. I was at first prompted to pick a file to search, so I did to see what would happen, but now I can’t search for anything. I’m not getting any results. I tried throwing out my preferences and restarting the program as well as my computer but it didn’t work. I’m not sure how to get the search to work again.
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7 Replies
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Search your system for files with a “.pIs” extension, then delete all of those files. The next time you run particleView it will rebuild all of the search data.
Alan.
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I just did a search and I don’t have any files ending in .pls. I’m on a mac so maybe there’s something different?
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Still no luck getting the search to work. I don’t know if I should reinstall everything or can I just reinstall particleview?
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Reinstall won’t fix anything I think.
You have to find those data files. Spotlight search on “.pIs”. On my Mac the files are in:
/Library/Application Support/wondertouch/particleView Delete all of the .pIs files in that folder. Then when you run pView it will rebuild the data files.
Alan.
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For some reason, searching in Spotlight for “.pls” would find nothing. But going directly to that folder I found the .pls files I’ve been looking for. I deleted them and now search works again. Thank you very much for the help!
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I’m having problems too. Wasnt it possible to search all libraries in previous versions? Now I can only view one library at a time, which is kind of pointless as far as I can see.
Cheers
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What do you mean by “view”? Only one library is loaded at a time, but do an empty OR search and you’ll get all emitters in the search results. Click on any emitter in the search results and its library is loaded (but still only a single library is loaded at a time).
Alan.
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