Search in Smart Folder not working

On my Desktop I have a folder of named pictures. Today the Search returns no results. What has happened?

Renaming the folder from the longstanding "picture_bank" to "picturebank" seems to have worked. Why?

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    Cashew. 
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    C, sorry…I read your posts out of order. I see that you have links to your smart groups after all. My apologies.
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