Laravel giving View Not found ErrorException in compiled.php

Quiz app, laravel 5.2,Mac Os I made a new view for the results of a search form but it's not being found, I get

    ErrorException in compiled.php line 14475:
View [view] not found. (View: /Users/...path.../resources/views/pages/search.blade.php)

tried

   composer dump-autoload
   php artisan optimize —force
   php artisan config:cache
   php artisan route:cache
   php artisan view:clear

    Route::get('/search','PagesController@search')->name('search');

The route appears with the name search in php artisan route:list And the other routes are working in the PagesController(home,index etc) except

  public function search(){

    return view('pages.search');
}

I'm not sure what else to try