intellij find in path always shows no occurrences

Question

Whenever i use Intellij find in path for the last few days, i get no results whatsoever.. I don't know what i've changed to create this scenario or what has broken.

even if i search within a scope and only include one folder with one file the search tool still cannot find anything.

For example i search for 'status' in Whole Project. It should return 1000's of results. If i limit to *.java files and search in 'Directory' with a dir that only contains one java file with occurrences of 'status', intellij still cannot find it.

If i do a local search (Ctrl+f) i can find whatever i want in the currently open file..

Has anybody come across this issue before?

Thanks

Answer 1

Seems I needed to go to file->Invalidate Caches and restart.. Maybe that will help someone with the same problem!