# In:private doesn't find group messages (unless you're admin?)
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/in-private-doesnt-find-group-messages-unless-youre-admin/62494
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [May 11, 2017, 9:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/in-private-doesnt-find-group-messages-unless-youre-admin/62494 "2017-05-11T09:23:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@carlokok](https://meta.discourse.org/u/carlokok)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2017, 9:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/in-private-doesnt-find-group-messages-unless-youre-admin/62494/1 "2017-05-11T09:23:16Z")
Doing a search for: “InputChildrenNamespace in:private” will show all posts containing that info if I’m an admin, but when there’s a group message (ie owned by **support** ) and the user is not an admin, but is part of that group, the post isn’t shown. Is this known or something I’m doing wrong?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2017, 2:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/in-private-doesnt-find-group-messages-unless-youre-admin/62494/2 "2017-05-11T14:53:06Z")
Not sure, this is a question for @sam.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2017, 8:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/in-private-doesnt-find-group-messages-unless-youre-admin/62494/3 "2017-05-11T20:02:33Z")
This is fixed per:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/52ae63d5d7711dd53aba989abba19a2d3e928578](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/52ae63d5d7711dd53aba989abba19a2d3e928578)
You have a pretty great knack at finding these edge cases! thanks heaps 💟
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2017, 8:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/in-private-doesnt-find-group-messages-unless-youre-admin/62494/4 "2017-05-11T20:02:37Z")