Why do I get "Sorry - no matches" or "page cannot be found" messages during searches?

[Steve St.Laurent]

The search engine in vB3 saves your search into a database and that search is removed after 15 minutes of inactivity. If you do a search (like a "View New Posts" for example) and after reading a number of threads walk away from your PC and have lunch for example and come back to it 20 minutes later you will get one of these messages. In order to keep a search current you need to have some activity within 15 minutes so that it doesn't time out - a refresh will work. After that you will need to do another search to get your information. FYI - the view new posts is also timed out at that 15 minute window so it will be reset and you won't see the same list of threads.



-Steve St. Laurent

Webmaster