General searches do not find all applicable files

all files meeting a search category in Finder do not show up in the results. Even when I search for a known specific file by the exact name it does not show up when searching for it in Finder. The same thing happens when I search in Adobe Bridge. any ideas?

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>
Hi. I am running the link checker, but its not
finding all my
> errors -
> does anyone know why? -- for example - links like
"/products/index.html
> should
> be "../products/index.html -- but link checker is not
flagging this as
> wrong.
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> Also the opposite - if I have this
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> Help - I really wanted to implement my new site tomorrow
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> trust
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Hi. I am running the link checker, but its not
finding all my
> errors -
> does anyone know why? -- for example - links like
"/products/index.html
> should
> be "../products/index.html -- but link checker is not
flagging this as
> wrong.
>
> Also the opposite - if I have this
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>
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