Lost my search function on Drupal 4.7

Here's the scenario -

I was moving an old web site -- and saw the huge number of searches and thought that they were bloating up database. I cleared out the searches and search index file.

Guess what?

When I tested the search in the new installation I got very few or no hits.

What to do?

I did a number of searches on the problem.

Like

Drupal 4.7 search broken

Drupal 4.x search problem

Drupal 4.7 search won't work

nothing seemed to work out

I tried editing a few posts and running cron.php after each edit. Those posts showed up in the search.

Then reading another bit of advice - I saw that I go to

Admin
Settings
Search

and if you change the number of letters you use as a minimum the site is reindexed.

I changed the number a few times - also I set the number of nodes reindexed in each cron to 50.

After doing that enough times to cover the whole site I had my index restored and working.

Good news -

Right?

Right!

If You Ever Need Any Birchbark

Sometimes you need some birchbark or teasel or corn husks - for a craft project - so where do you go to get something like that.

http://countrycraftsupplies.com/


That's the place!

DRUPALACON*DC - Documentation sprint

At my first DrupalCon in Boston last year I was unable to stay on for the sprints - This year in DC I could delay departure for a number of hours and learn how to help out.

I sat at a table where we were "rolling up comments" on the handbook pages.

We were worked out a workflow and shared our efforts around the room via an IRC channel at freenode - #drupal-comments

We were directed to look at

http://drupal.org/handbook/comments

Pick a node and see if we could find a way to eliminate the comments by either rolling their info into the node or deciding that the comment was not really adding to the discussion.

The room in the convention center was full of volunteers.

Great atmosphere.