FP: Deleted Pages from Web Show up in Search Results List

When you perform a search, your results list contains one or more pages that you deleted using FrontPage Explorer. If you attempt to load a deleted page, you receive a message indicating that the page cannot be found.

This behavior occurs because FrontPage maintains pointers to your Web content--even the content you deleted. These pointers remain intact until you recalculate links.

To resolve this behavior, use either of the following methods.

NOTE: You should try Method 1 first. If Method 1 does not resolve this behavior, use Method 2.

Method 1: Recalculate Links

1. Open your Web in FrontPage Explorer.
2. On the Tools menu, click Recalculate Hyperlinks.
3. Rerun your search in a Web browser.
   
   NOTE: You may need to refresh or reload the page in the Web browser.

Method 2: Reset the Dependency Databases

To reset the dependency databases used by the FrontPage Search component, follow these steps:

1. In Windows Explorer, open the folder that contains your Web content. To determine where you content is stored, use the following table as a guide

         Web Server               Folder
         -----------------------------------------------------------------
   
         FrontPage Personal Web Server      \FrontPage Webs\Content
         Microsoft Personal Web Server      \Webshare\wwwroot
         Microsoft Internet Information Server  \InetPub\wwwroot

2. Open the folder that contained the deleted page.
3. Open the \_vti_pvt folder and delete the following two files:

         Deptodoc.btr
         Doctodep.btr

4. Open the \_vti_txt\default.wti folder. Delete the following files:

         All.cat
         All.dct
         All.doc
         All.fmt
         All.fn
         All.hl
         All.idx
         All.inv
         All.src

5. Switch to FrontPage Explorer.
6. On the Tools menu, click Recalculate Hyperlinks.