# Search by tags not showing all results

**URL:** <https://tagspaces.discourse.group/t/search-by-tags-not-showing-all-results/344>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [June 24, 2024, 5:58am UTC](https://tagspaces.discourse.group/t/search-by-tags-not-showing-all-results/344 "2024-06-24T05:58:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![spothot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@spothot](https://tagspaces.discourse.group/u/spothot)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 5:58am UTC](https://tagspaces.discourse.group/t/search-by-tags-not-showing-all-results/344/1 "2024-06-24T05:58:07Z")

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Hello! Got this app because I really need a better way to organize my commissions, and the tag search doesn’t seem to be working.  
I set “Commissions” as my main folder, tag each file by author + characters, and the structure is generally:  
`Commissions/Personal/[Character name]`  
`Commission/Commercial/[Character name]`

But the tag search doesn’t show all results, as seen in the image below (new user upload limit of one image, so had to merge them: directory list on left, search results on right)

 ![tagspaces_issue](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/tagspaces/original/1X/9944a8781933d7be72b6f92955e5e85f33c9f229.jpeg)

Any idea why this is happening?

EDIT: apparently I waited a bit and it magically started to work?  
For future reference, anyone knows why it wasn’t working back there?

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**Author:** ![ilian](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/tagspaces.discourse.group/ilian/32/6_2.png) [@ilian](https://tagspaces.discourse.group/u/ilian)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 6:16am UTC](https://tagspaces.discourse.group/t/search-by-tags-not-showing-all-results/344/2 "2024-06-24T06:16:14Z")

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The index used for the search is not updated right after tagging files and by default the index is valid for about 10 minutes. So this could be the explanation for the behavior. You can always force re-indexing in the advanced search dialog of the app.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/tagspaces/original/1X/fc91d0efd97875858cb9e343506ded62500970fd.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![spothot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@spothot](https://tagspaces.discourse.group/u/spothot)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 6:21am UTC](https://tagspaces.discourse.group/t/search-by-tags-not-showing-all-results/344/3 "2024-06-24T06:21:46Z")

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Thanks! Don’t know how I missed that