Unity Issue Tracker - Search Indexing restart each time you start Unity

Fixed in 2021.3.33f1

Fixed in 2021.3.X, 2022.3.X, 2023.2.X, 2023.3.X, 2023.3.0a15

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Search Indexing restart each time you start Unity

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Nov 09, 2023

Setup a project with a few assets
Ensure you have an index in your Asset folder (not the default index in UserSettings).
Open the search window. Validate that you can search assets in your project.
Close the search window.
Close Unity.
Reopen Unity.
Open the search window. See that the Progress bar for indexing restarts. Alternatively you can look at <Project>\Library\Search and see that the index file are deleted when you start Unity.

Woararound: if you only have an index file in UserSettings this won't happen.