node.js - How do I get Mongoose to find none Mongoose created data within MongoDB? -

can please stop me going insane!

i have mongodb database has database created , populated via mongoose, works great can perform finds woth no problems @ all.

i went mongo console , created new database use newdb , performed simple insert, inserted several records , appeared fine within mongo. can find on them , mongo operations when try perform find on database mongoose returns null???

i have noticed database created in mongo console not create '__v' field believe mongoose internal indexing uses, have created field in custom tables still no joy cannot create data outside of mongoose , use within app??????

i have spent hours looking , reading maybe missed cannot find thing on , many people must hit every week????

**sorry here code running against database:

exports.adduser = function(req, res){     var mongoose = require("mongoose");     mongoose.connect("localhost/nm", function(err){         if(err)throw(err);         console.log("connected mongodb successfully...")         var schema = mongoose.schema({             firstname: string,             lastname: string,             middleinitial: string,             password: string,             username: string         });         var auser = mongoose.model("users", schema);         auser.find({}, function(err, alist){             console.log(">>>>"+alist);         });     }); 

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thanks again!!!!! input appreciated....

try inspecting mongo instance with

show dbs use <dbname> 

in mongo shell make sure using right database ,

show collections 

or alternatively

db.getcollectionnames() 

to see if collections there or not.

__v document version property incremented array operations(mongoose 3). connection string might wrong.