Research problem, won't find certain documents (in files)

Ive just had to wipe my macbookpro & have updated to El Capitan, however there is now files that I can't get. This worked well before. It seems that it is a limited number of "files" (with a large amount of documents in their midst) which cannot be searched (IE does not give a result) even if they are all there and can be found manually (if I had a lot of time)

It seems to pick up documents 'old' and 'new '.

They are located in the documents folder and I checked it is not 'disabled' in the spotlight thus preferences not limited in the privacy of the spotlight section. Can anyone help?

Thank you. Darren

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