Try going to the Extension Manager's Discover view and click the Discover button to see if there are any extensions not installed.

Also, go to the Extension Manager's Database view and click Fix to update your database to the current schema.

You're a life saver. Discover fixed the issue. The strange thing is, I tried discover, but only 2 extensions came up originally. I clicked it again and all the Smart Search stuff displayed.

The only problem now is a problem that we touched on in the Finder-Integration GitHub Repository. When I click on Index under Smart Search it gives me the following error again (which actually had been fixed):

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Ah I remembered this was due to certain plugins not playing nicely. I will try disabling all non-mandatory plugins.

Did you follow the update instructions here? (
http://docs.joomla.org/Upgrading_from_an_existing_version#Manually_Copy_New_Program_Files).
This includes using the Database check tab and the Discover->Install tab.
Mark

On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Christopher Pratt <
reply@reply.github.com

wrote:

I just upgraded my 1.7.3 site to 2.5.1 and noticed that Smart Search was
missing from the Components menu. After some investigation I realized the
plugin needed to be enabled in order for the component to show. I followed
the following documentation to do so:

http://docs.joomla.org/index.php?title=Smart_Search_quickstart_guide&oldid=64505

Unfortunately, all the Smart Search plugins seem to be gone or were never
installed upon upgrade. This may be due to the way I upgraded Joomla. I
used the old method of extracting the Joomla update file, FTPing all the
files and overwriting the old, I then logged into Joomla Admin and went to
Extension Manager / Database / and clicked Fix. This seems to have worked
in every regard, except Finder is not functioning (though I see it was
installed via FTP under /components and /administrator/components.

If I type the following I can see com_finder from my Joomla 2.5.1 Admin
Panel:

/administrator/index.php?option=com_finder

Unfortunately, it is showing the following error on the page:

Error loading component: com_finder, 1
Error loading component: com_finder, 1

So I am at a loss on how to get the plugins? Is there a download package?

Also, let me explain why I had to upgrade Joomla the old fashioned way.
For some reason when I went to Extension Manager / Update and attempted to
upgrade to 2.5.1 it gave me the following error over and over again:

JInstaller: :Install: Error SQL DB function failed with error number 1060
Duplicate column name 'ordering' SQL=ALTER TABLE test_languages
ADD COLUMN ordering int(11) NOT NULL default 0 AFTER published;
SQL =

   ALTER TABLE `#__languages` ADD COLUMN `ordering` int(11) NOT NULL

default 0 AFTER published;

   Files Update: SQL error file DB function failed with error number

1060
Duplicate column name 'ordering' SQL=ALTER TABLE test_languages
ADD COLUMN ordering int(11) NOT NULL default 0 AFTER published;
SQL =

   ALTER TABLE `#__languages` ADD COLUMN `ordering` int(11) NOT NULL

default 0 AFTER published;

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Hey Dexter. I did follow those instructions, but on my first attempt clicking Discover it only brought back 2 items that were unrelated to Finder/Smart Search. After the advice above I went back and clicked it again, it did the same thing... so I clicked it a second time. BOOM! All kinds of stuff showed up. I do not keep Browser Cache or Internet History, so I know that wasn't an issue. Thank you for the help though Dexter!

On another note. I have a #_content table of just about 3G. 30k Articles and 4k Categories. In earlier versions of Finder before it was integrated into the latest release of Joomla 2.5 Stable I had the same problem I'm having now. It hangs. I think this is due to having specific articles that are in pagebreak standards are almost 400 pages long. I have been building an online library using Joomla (which in retrospect may have been a bad idea, due to Joomla not really having the opportunity to deal with EXTREMELY large content based sites, and also that it uses MySQL which can be a huge bottleneck with large sites) and I have been letting the GUI Indexer run for about 50 minutes now and it is hung up on 10% which was what happened earlier on in development when I tried this. I have used the CLI as well and let it run for 3 days and it never finished, and eventually shot up an error which ultimately nullified all the prior index.

Any thoughts?

I think you'll have better luck with this question if you raise it on the
Bug Squad google group (http://groups.google.com/group/joomlabugsquad).
Good luck. Mark

On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Christopher Pratt <
reply@reply.github.com

wrote:

Hey Dexter. I did follow those instructions, but on my first attempt
clicking Discover it only brought back 2 items that were unrelated to
Finder/Smart Search. After the advice above I went back and clicked it
again, it did the same thing... so I clicked it a second time. BOOM! All
kinds of stuff showed up. I do not keep Browser Cache or Internet History,
so I know that wasn't an issue. Thank you for the help though Dexter!

On another note. I have a #_content table of just about 3G. 30k Articles
and 4k Categories. In earlier versions of Finder before it was integrated
into the latest release of Joomla 2.5 Stable I had the same problem I'm
having now. It hangs. I think this is due to having specific articles that
are in pagebreak standards are almost 400 pages long. I have been building
an online library using Joomla (which in retrospect may have been a bad
idea, due to Joomla not really having the opportunity to deal with
EXTREMELY large content based sites, and also that it uses MySQL which can
be a huge bottleneck with large sites) and I have been letting the GUI
Indexer run for about 50 minutes now and it is hung up on 10% which was
what happened earlier on in development when I tried this. I have used the
CLI as well and let it run for 3 days and it never finished, and eventually
shot up an error which ultimately nullified all the prior index.

Any thoughts?

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Just for the records - The link you posted in the first post leads to a previous version of the article - If you bookmarked it or something you should change it to:
http://docs.joomla.org/Smart_Search_quickstart_guide