I clicked on “Search” and then “Advanced search” and then typed in what I wanted to search for, and never mind what it was.
Apparently, I have to wait 300 seconds AFTER CLICKING THE SEARCH BUTTON before I can ACTUALLY SEARCH.
I understand the deteriorating SDMB database, equipment, or whatever it is. Okay, I don’t understand it, or any of that stuff. But I’ve heard things.
But this is ridiculous. If, after clicking on “advanced,” I had actually gotten to SEARCH for something, I could understand the 5-minute wait. (Well, except by the time I got around to clicking search it was actually 267 seconds left to wait, or somesuch.)
But unless it started its search, and it could only have been for the word “advanced,” then it searched for nothing. And I got nothing. Except time.
So I guess all my contributions (meager as they are) to this board should now be performed while waiting between fruitless, useless searches.
You don’t have to wait 300 seconds before doing an initial search. You probably inadvertently searched the database before going in Advanced Search. Did you click on “New Posts”, for example?
I did not click on “new posts.” I clicked on Search, then “advanced,” and that was it.
Actually it happened twice. The second time I had to wait another 266 seconds. The third time I was actually able to perform the search I wanted, and it didn’t go back far enough in time to find what I was looking for.
More grrrr.
And after posting this reply, I still have 110 seconds to wait before checking New Posts! Which I have not done yet! Still more grrrr! I guess I type too fast.
Ooops. 2nd edit. 28 more seconds. Five minutes is kind of a long time, don’tcha think?
When I click once on “Search” or “Search This Thread” it brings up a dialog box. I drag the cursor down to “Advanced Search” and everything is hunky dunky. No waiting.
I knew that. I just thought it would be funnier to type it than, you know, to sit here twiddling my thumbs and thinking it. You know, while I was waiting. Guess I was wrong. By the way, I reset the default & found what I was looking for, so that actually helped. Thanks!
It’s behaving for me - I just did an Advanced search without any problems. As others have mentioned, it looks like somehow the board thought you had done a search immediately prior to you attempting the Advanced search.
