Thursday, January 17, 2013

How To Solve: "No Files Were Found To Look In. Find Was Stopped In Progress"

Last week a co worker of mine who wanted to remain anonymous, ran into the weirdest problem. She tried to use the “find in files” option in Visual Studio 2012 and even though the searched expression was out there in one of the files, she got the following result: “No files were found to look in. Find was stopped in progress.”


You can close Visual Studio, restart your computer or jump three times on one leg, but the problem remains. This is a very strange and odd bug,

But fortunately there is a solution: press Ctrl+Scroll Lock and everything gets back to normal. If it doesn’t work, try to press Scroll Lock and than hit Ctrl+Scroll Lock again. I have no idea why or how it works, but the fact is that it does solve the problem.

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