Episerver Find not working for content or blocks

Hello All!

 I have a site where the search for the pages and the blocks are not working - keeps throwing up the "Content not found" 

so far i have tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it. 

i can hit this ok 

http://mtsite/IndexingService/IndexingService.svc

and get the end point not found 

i can get to here

//EPiServer/CMS/Admin/IndexContent.aspx

and it runs fine but when i go t the specfied location the folder is empty. 

the folder permissions seem ok aswell - not too sure what is going on. 

any help provided would be much appraciated.