Multi-File Find searching old content

A topic contained "content A". I edited it to contain
"content B" and saved my change. The modified date of the topic is
1/18/2008. But now when I use Muti-File Find to search for "content
A" it still lists that topic and highlights the content A in the
preview window. When I view the topic "content A" is not there. Its
as if the Muti-File Find utility is looking at an out of date
database. Is there a refresh or rebuild or something that I should
be doing?

Hi RoboKate and welcome to the RH community.
Can you check that you are looking at the correct version of
the topic source. Also look in the topic's truecode. The find and
replace tool looks there rather than the WYSIWYG and there may be a
further instance in there.
As an aside, most users find a third party tool such as
bkreplacem or
FAR more reliable
and feature rich.

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