On Oct 3, 2012, at 3:16 PM, Michael Della Bitta <michael.della.bi...@appinions.com> wrote:
> Leading off with a negation does weird things. Try > > (*:* AND NOT categoryid:387602) OR mfrid:18678 > > Michael Della Bitta > Yep, works fine in this manner. So, the problem indeed is the leading negate, even with parentheses, it ignores them with leading negate. Thanks!