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How do I move Windows Search and Index Service databases to another drive?

On one of our older Windows 2003 Servers we need to run the Indexing Service and Windows Search. The problem is that the windows.edb file has grown quite large. I want to move these and related files to D:\IndexService. To do this you can change the…
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Windows 7 to search a network drive

Is there any way that I can have windows 7 clients be able to go to "start" and type in the name of a file that is located on a network drive? I have read that this is possible through indexing, but to get through the indexing steps I need to make…
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Index Only File Names For Windows Explorer Search?

How can one tell Windows to index only file names under Windows? Running a name:*whatever* search in Windows Explorer takes a long time without indexing the entire file system. That is overkill for those of us merely interested in getting the…
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When (if ever) should the Indexing Service turned on on a Sql Server Box?

I was recently looking over the settings for a server (Windows 2003 SP2) that is used exclusively as the DB host for a Sql Server 2005 install that is used on a website. I saw that for all three drives on the machine (one for system/program files,…
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How to index document files in NAS storage?

I'm currently developing an application that have to index document files (.pdf and .doc) which are in NAS storage. After that I want to query them over the application. My customer does not want to upload these files somewhere else. Can Sql Server…
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Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2003 - Should I Disable Basic Disk Indexing?

I am adding a new basic disk partition to my Exchange 2007 Windows Server 2003 64bit server to add more storage groups. It is a RAID 1 Array. I know Exchange 2007 has it's own search indexing service, which is on by default and needed. On clients,…
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New property for indexing service on Windows Server 2008 - Where to put registery entry

I'm trying to set up a new property in the indexing service for Server 2008. I've followed the tutorial here http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/19540/Microsoft-Indexing-Service-How-To which is all fine up until the point where you have to add an…
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Maximum size of an indexing service catalog

Does anyone know what the maximum size on an indexing service index is on Windows 2008? We are having all sorts of problems with the index hanging and not processing new documents. I just deleted the catalog and and recreated it. I've added in 4…
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Indexing Service Problem

I've got an HTML file which I'm having a problem with through Index Server. Here is the text in question. (B) $10,800 per linear mile for (C) $40,000 per linear mile for any My problem is with the dollar amounts. If I search for 800,…
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Thinking Sphinx index rebuild error on windows xp: searchd is already running

I have Sphinx installed on windows xp system. A I use Thinking Sphinx plug-in within my rails application. I can't rebuild index with Thinking Sphinx rake task after application server starting up even if I stop it: Stopped search daemon (pid…
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Does Microsoft Indexing Service cache permissions?

There's one question that's haunted me for a while now and I'm dying for a definitive answer on it. And no, it's now women. It's simply this: does Microsoft Index Server cache the permissions (ACLs) on the files it processes? Or, if a file in the…
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Can I manually map a file extension to an IFilter?

I'm working with Microsoft Indexing Service. I have purchased a third-party IFilter to extract XMP metadata from Adobe products. I'm having trouble getting it to work, and it occurs to me that the problem is that I don't actually have the Adobe…
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Windows Server 2019: Can't add locations to index for windows search

i'm obviously far too stupid, but maybe someone has mercy ;-) System: Windows Server 2019 Standard DC Tested Users: administrator Problem: Windows search Server index only includes one useless location: Internet Explorer History. As a result there…
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Server 2012 indexing

we are encountering an issue where an Index file keeps growing indefinite until the special partition for it becomes full and causes it to be come corrupted, which the indexer then deletes and rebuilds. From my understanding the indexing file should…
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Windows Indexing filling up with hidden files

How can I see or control why Windows Indexing is filling up this drive? See this report from Tree Size (as Administrator): Only about 200 GB is reported, but Windws says 254 GB used. Now when I rebuild the Windows Index database: 135 GB is freed…
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