Using Windows 7. It seems like the metadata of some files is being ignored, although the metadata of most files is found just fine. (These problematic files can be found quite easily by file name.)
I have various MP4 files with some metadata (title, tags) filled in. If I put a tag in the Search box for a specific folder, a few files in that folder with that tag do not show up. For example, a file might have the tag fav (and other tags)— if I put fav or tag:fav (or any other tag for that file) in the Search box, that file will not show up. (Other files will display as expected.)
If I put the title of the file (copied exactly from the Title metadata) in the Search box, either just by itself or with tag:title (title is whatever the title is), that file will not show up.
If I put in tag:=[] to find files without tags, that file will show up even though it has several tags and, similarly, if I put in title:=[] to find files without titles, that file will show up even though it has a title.
I've rebuilt the index countless times and, in any event, I’m searching within the specific folder where I know the file is and, as I’ve said, I can search for almost all the files as expected. This weird behavior is happening with just a few files and they don’t seem unusual in any way.
How do I get the metadata of these files to be found as expected?