# Searching certificates.pfx produces zero results

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**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [July 30, 2019, 4:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/searching-certificates-pfx-produces-zero-results/27004 "2019-07-30T16:45:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![ecujak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/839c29/32.png) [@ecujak](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ecujak)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 4:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/searching-certificates-pfx-produces-zero-results/27004/1 "2019-07-30T16:45:07Z")

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Searching certificates.pfx produces zero results, yet I know I have that exact string in one of my own forum posts.

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 4:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/searching-certificates-pfx-produces-zero-results/27004/2 "2019-07-31T16:29:12Z")

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This post shows up.

Search is hard I guess 🤷‍♂️

We upgrade the forum software regularly so maybe it’ll solve itself one day.

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**Author:** ![ecujak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/839c29/32.png) [@ecujak](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ecujak)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 7:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/searching-certificates-pfx-produces-zero-results/27004/3 "2019-07-31T19:52:16Z")

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I just know I have seen others post on deleting certificates.pfx, but I was looking to see if there was anything else that needed to be cleaned when upgrading on linux.

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**Author:** ![ecujak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/839c29/32.png) [@ecujak](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ecujak)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 7:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/searching-certificates-pfx-produces-zero-results/27004/4 "2019-07-31T19:54:35Z")

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Could it be searching only the title? Maybe we could extend the search to the comments.

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**Author:** ![grietveld](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/grietveld/32/6984_2.png) [@grietveld](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/grietveld)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 7:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/searching-certificates-pfx-produces-zero-results/27004/5 "2019-07-31T19:59:11Z")

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It searches comments, I just tested around to see what behavior it was. The only other post I could find that referenced ‘certificates.pfx’ had it in a longer string of characters. I am guessing the forum software is looking at that as one word and omitting it from results. There might be a wildcard option to add into the search to have it include these types of results.

Either that or just search .pfx and that finds a bunch of responses you can probably narrow down on with existing filters in advance search.