On Umb 13 if I want to add a link to a page using the built in linking option only recenly publish pages can be found when I use the "Link to page" search function. If I expand the root node I can see all my pages, published and unpublised, but if I I search for the very first node it will say "Sorry, we can not find what your looking for". I tried rebuilding the internal exame DB with not change. Any ideas why the search does not work and how to make it work?

If you query examine from backoffice (settings > examine), do the internal and external indices also not find "the very first node"?

It is found in the external index but not the internal.

That's likely the problem. No idea why that index would start to purge old pages. Never had this problem.

Yea, that is the main question. Why the pruge. At least I know it is the internal index and I can just keep rebuilding it when it happens with out afecting my front end search so I apreacite helping narrow that down. But would like to know why it happens, cause it is kind of annoying seeing how my latest content imort just pushed me past the 1300 documents point

Any custom examine stuff going on? No risk of the lucene files being broken somehow?

I have a search helper CS file that does queries against the external index and the Our.Umbraco.Extensions.Search package installed. My custom code only does queries and only interacts with the exteranl index though