Searching by album name

In the past, I have been able to use the standard iPhoto search function (bottom right) to search for words in iPhoto albums. I can still search and find words in albums I created some tijme ago but for some reason, it's stopped working for all new albums I create.
I select a few photo, press the plus sign, give the new album a unique name like "zanidu" and click OK. I then go back to view "Library", then do a search for "zanidu." I get nothing.
I suspect something in corrupt. I've rebuilt everything (even the rebuilding that take hours) and that has not repaired the problem.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks.

Matthew St.
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
That search function is controlled by Spotlight, and it sounds like your Spotlight is not indexing the Library.
Go to System Preferences -> Spotlight and add the iPhoto Library Folder to the Privacy Pane. Leave it there a few moments and then remove it again. This will force Spotlight to re-index the Library.
Remember to leave it time to re-index before testing it.
Regards
TD

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