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No Search Engines displayed when down arrow is pressed


RonD2013

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Hi,

I did a search for this problem to see if a fix was already found/posted but did not find anything.

I have a number of entries for Search Engines in my preferences in Advanced/UI Extras. However, when I press the down arrow button next to the search box I do not get anything displayed. This happened in 3.2 and now in 3.3.

Is there a known solution/work around?

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Only recently installed 3.3. Have renamed settings file and restarted. Engines list is now as follows:

IsoHunt|http://isohunt.com/?keyword=

The Pirate Bay|http://thepiratebay.se/?keyword=

But still see no options when pressing down arrow button. when I enter a value to search and hit search Isohunt starts in my browser but goes to the start page, does not look for any torrent matching the value entered in the search.

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That is a modified list because TPB and tvRSS are not in the default which is BitTorrent and the now defunct Mininova.

To modify Beasly's suggestion a little, stopp all jobs, note down all your settings, backup your settings.dat, close the client and delete settings.dat. Then when the client restarts it will create a new settings.dat file with everything set to default. Then you can replace all your settings and restart the jobs.

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keep in mind some torrent index sites may occasionally change their search url's

The ones you posted are not correct to search...

ex: IsoHunt|http://isohunt.com/?keyword=

The Pirate Bay|http://thepiratebay.se/?keyword=

Try some of these:

IsoHunt|http://isohunt.com/torrents.php?ext=&op=and&ihq=

Torlock|http://www.torlock.com/all/torrents/

The Pirate Bay|http://thepiratebay.se/search.php?q=

Fenopy|http://fenopy.com/?keyword=

Kickass|http://kat.ph/usearch/

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Thanks to both ciaobaby and Beasly. Have not tried Beaslys' latest suggestion yet. But I did enter the Search Engines he listed. The behaviour of search got a bit weirder. I still see nothing when I click the down arrow, However, when I enter a search string the engine that is started is the last one in the list. I moved the entries around a few times to experiment and this is definitely what is happening.

This is not a major problem to me. I simple go to my browser and open the search engine(s) as required. But it is annoying!

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