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Old Jan 18, 2023 | 12:32 PM
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When I used Search a few minutes ago it returned hundreds of posts that did not meet the search criteria. Am I doing something wrong? I searched for "Torque Pro".
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Old Jan 18, 2023 | 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by getterdun
When I used Search a few minutes ago it returned hundreds of posts that did not meet the search criteria. Am I doing something wrong? I searched for "Torque Pro".
I often seem have better luck doing a google search for this forum + search term you see looking for (vs using forum search tool)
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Old Jan 18, 2023 | 05:03 PM
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yes you probably want to make sure you are filtering down to results in this sub forum as mentioned above, but that still gives ~465 results so you can use the advanced tools to narrow down further by range of dates or user name etc...
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Old Jan 18, 2023 | 09:42 PM
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Originally Posted by getterdun
When I used Search a few minutes ago it returned hundreds of posts that did not meet the search criteria. Am I doing something wrong? I searched for "Torque Pro".
That's because there ARE ~495 posts with the phrase "torque pro" in them!

Use the advanced search and, at the bottom left, be sure to change the search from THREADS to POSTS. That way, your results will be the individual posts that have that phrase in them and not links to the entire threads that contain many posts, one or more of which has/have the phrase in it/them.

Optionally if you search like you already did, you can always click into the thread and then use the "Seach this thread" (upper right corner of messages grid) and search for "torque pro" again -- that will highlight the phrase wherever it exists in all the posts.

I like the first option the best.
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Old Jan 19, 2023 | 04:36 PM
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Thank you all for the suggestions. I appreciate you taking your time on this.

After I changed the Search filter to Posts instead of Threads it worked fine. I just didn't realize I needed to do that.
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