[texhax] Help with Miktex

[Bob Tennent]

 >|How do you update the filenames datatbase.  I know there is, or used to
 >|be, a simple program to run that would do it, but I have forgotten what it
 >|is.  The "official" method mentioned in the Miktex tutorial (run miktex,
 >|the maintenance, then settings then update FNDB) has no effect since the
 >|miktex engine still cannot find the file I have added and which is
 >|certainly there.

It is certainly where? In the settings window, click on Roots. Click
on "Show MiKTeX-maintained root directories". Is it below one of
those texmf roots?

If it is below one of those texmf roots, it may not be in a suitable
sub-directory.  I don't know whether MiKTeX's search is as fussy as
TeXLive's search but this might be the issue.  What kind of file
is it?

Bob T.