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After updating to BL3, many searches on my website are now timing out with:
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For example, this search "http://rick.samcos.com/backlight/search/?q=steens" sometimes succeeds but has been failing >50% of the time today.

Previously, searches on my website often took >20 seconds, so they appear to always have been on the cusp of a 30 sec timeout. Appears that BL3 now has pushed many of them over that limit!

I thought that entering a double hyphen ("--") was converted by markdown into an emdash within BL2. But it's not for me. So I have tried various other methods without success. For example, entering the html "—" or "&emdash;"  (on a separate source line per markdown convention) results in the output of "—" . Is there a way to get a emdash inserted into the output text? I am entering the album/album set source copy through Lightroom. TIA!

Every Album Set that I create and populate with Albums within Lightroom gets the following warning when I publish it (and therefore all of its contained Albums):

Warning: Can't update this collection.
An internal error has occurred: TTGPublishServiceProvider.lua:792: attempt to concatentate local 'minimizeEmbeddedMetadata' (a boolean value)

Lr's Album Set publishing correctly publishes/re-publishes the first contained Album needing publishing, but the above warning occurs before the publishing of any additional Album(s) and aborts the publishing process.

This happens within my Lr catalog whether it is hosted on either of two Windows 10 systems -- both have fully updated Windows, Lr, and TTG software. And it occurs for any newly created Album Set, but doesn't occurred with pre-existing Album Sets (e.g., an Album Set created last summer has no problem being fully republished)

I can work around this problem by individually publishing each individual album contained in an Album Set, but it's a pain.

I accidentally overwrote the Page Copy of a published album, so I tried restoring that album from a backup Lr catalog made before my mistake (e.g., per http://backlight.theturninggate.net/doc … _backlight). That is, I temporarily opened the backup catalog in Lr, and intended to either publish that one album or edit that album within Lr & copy the Page Copy field's contents. But when I edit'd that album using a backup Lr catalog, the Page Copy field contained the new, erroneous contents! So looks to me like this data is (effectively) only stored on the server!!! [BTW, I tried to restore from a total of 3 Lr backups and they all failed to display/restore the Page Copy that existed at the time of that backup.]

Fortunately I found a BL publisher data log file on the server from the day that that album was last correctly published. So I was able to copy the album's Page Copy from there and paste/overwrite the recent erroneous version. I was very lucky that the log file still existed since I periodically purge them (I never imagined that I'd need them for backup)!

Hopefully this is some error on my part, otherwise this is a very scary & untenable situation for me -- I assume that all Lr data (including BL's) can be restored using only Lr/client-side backups.

I've had a Search menu choice with a custom title since CE4  (http://rick.samcos.com/search) and now wish to modify that text. But for the life of me I can't find where that custom text is specified. Forum posts point me to "Backlight Settings > Publisher > Search" but I can only find "Admin > Backlight Settings" which presents a page with "Publisher" section in which there is "Search Template" setting but nothing for custom text (or title). I know I'm probably overlooking something simple, but sure don't see it.

I'm running the newest versions of BL2 with WP Theme option.

I just found and corrected a misspelled word in the body text of 3 albums (typo "moring" instead of "morning"). After the correction, a search on "morning" now correctly lists those albums (among many others). Unfortunately, a search on previous typo "moring" also still lists those albums even though "moring" no longer occurs in them. I then explicitly marked and republished the entire albums to try to force a reindexing, but that also didn't remove the now erroneous word from the search database.

Here's the search: http://rick.samcos.com/backlight/search/?q=moring

PS I'm running latest BL version.