# Search in private messages when you hit enter

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-in-private-messages-when-you-hit-enter/48866
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [19 באוגוסט,‏ 2016,‏ 10:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-in-private-messages-when-you-hit-enter/48866 "2016-08-19T10:37:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![BlackSheep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/blacksheep/32/50170_2.png) [@BlackSheep](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BlackSheep)
#### Post date: [19 באוגוסט,‏ 2016,‏ 10:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-in-private-messages-when-you-hit-enter/48866/1 "2016-08-19T10:37:25Z")

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I have a very active user that says he can’t never find anything in his private messages. He is not very computer-wise and i was sceptic, I have never had this problem but in the end I have been able to track the problem down.

If you do a search in your inbox waiting for the dropdown menu with the results everything works fine:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/2/82689057a9081143d628f3bb5af62951e4d98a12.png) ← **message found**

But the moment you hit enter (as this user always does) it always sends you to an empty page with no results:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/2/02be2e6f637c3ef0ed19fbf26b82df20178586bf.png)

So that’s why this user says the inbox search is not working. It is a very minor bug with no importance, I just wanted to notify it.

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### Author: ![eviltrout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eviltrout/32/5275_2.png) [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [19 באוגוסט,‏ 2016,‏ 7:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-in-private-messages-when-you-hit-enter/48866/2 "2016-08-19T19:00:32Z")

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Here’s a fix for this. Thanks for reporting it!

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/b4b96bf62ba5eb0f161feb17e84c0570483372fe](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/b4b96bf62ba5eb0f161feb17e84c0570483372fe)

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### Author: ![eviltrout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eviltrout/32/5275_2.png) [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [19 באוגוסט,‏ 2016,‏ 7:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-in-private-messages-when-you-hit-enter/48866/3 "2016-08-19T19:00:35Z")

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