Error in search & site catalog

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Message # 1 | 12:34 PM 2010-08-17

Well basically, on my site - cherrymovie.do.am , i recently changed the site catalog category from 'free online movie streaming' to categories like 2010, 2009, 2008 so on and so forth, so now when a user searches they get the error

Page Not Found (404)
Page "http://cherrymovie.do.am/dir/free_online_movie_streaming/the_other_guys/1-1-0-7" not found.

Because the category has changed, so has its location, now im wondering... Is this going to be a major problem? Will it fix its self, does it re-index the whole site, or just pick up new links? Because if not i have to wait something like 2 months or whatever to change my robots.txt, so there won't be any search bar, that meens my site will be useless for 2 months or weeks or whatever it is.

Any suggestions would really help, thanks in advance.

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Message # 2 | 12:46 PM 2010-08-17

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so now when a user searches they get the error

Where exactly do they search? On search engines like Google or via the search form on your website?

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Message # 3 | 1:25 PM 2010-08-17

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Where exactly do they search? On search engines like Google or via the search form on your website?

Its the search form on the site, thats why its a problem, i can't use google because its like 2 weeks or 2 months till you can change the robots.txt, so whenever you submit a sitemap, obviously it fails, it would be fine it i used google search because on google webmasters i could just re-index and re-submit the sitemap.

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Message # 4 | 2:00 PM 2010-08-17

AlexLangley, I am afraid you will have to edit the entries manually and change "The name to be displayed in URL", then they will be reindexed.

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i can't use google because its like 2 weeks or 2 months till you can change the robots.txt

It is 30 days.

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Message # 5 | 1:11 AM 2010-08-18

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AlexLangley, I am afraid you will have to edit the entries manually and change "The name to be displayed in URL", then they will be reindexed.

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i can't use google because its like 2 weeks or 2 months till you can change the robots.txt

It is 30 days.

Oh poop, i can't do that for 243 links, anybody want to help out????

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AlexLangley, I am afraid you will have to edit the entries manually and change "The name to be displayed in URL", then they will be reindexed.

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i can't use google because its like 2 weeks or 2 months till you can change the robots.txt

It is 30 days.

Wheres "the name to be displayed in the url"?

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Message # 6 | 9:18 AM 2010-08-18

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Message # 7 | 10:46 AM 2010-08-18

Oh right, i edited all mine so that it was easy to submit links, so i don't have this option, i edited the category link to be displayed, but thats had to put /1 /2 /3 at the end of the categories, do you think you could send me the code for 'Name to be displayed in url' ?

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Message # 8 | 11:04 AM 2010-08-18

AlexLangley, I wonder how you managed to remove this field. Did you disable friendly URLs in Common Settings?

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