Search function suddenly dysfunctional

I have been using the search function with all pdf documents that are not image type files, but suddenly today it started to return meaningless results in any file I download from one particular database, and even those files that I had downloaded from the same source earlier and had searched without any problem. However, it continues to work perfectly with files downloaded from other sites. I do not know what is happening and what I can do. Please help!

farby wrote:
newdiscuss wrote:
After I made a software reset (*#7370#) the function worked well but now it works again faulty. Is there any solution to this behaviour?
When was this reset done ? How long (days) did it work fine after that ? Is it that you have added / stored a lot of data after the reset and then it started again !!!
The reset was done 4-5 days ago and I didn't add a lot of data after it. I have ca. 190 entries in the phonebook, 2 e-mail server settings, I installed the Opera mobile browser (after this everything worked well), and there are some SMS messages.

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