Questions tagged [indexing-service]
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Why would the MS Indexing service not be adding new folders to its index?
I have a simple catalog, just one folder. Every few days, a subfolder gets added, with one text file. Searching any file works fine up until about a week ago. The 5 files and folders added since ...
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Is it OK to disabled the Indexing Service (cisvc.exe) on Server 2003 Running as a Web Server?
Is it OK to disabled the Indexing Service (cisvc.exe) on Server 2003 Running as a Web Server? I only ask because it's hogging the CPU like crazy for hours and hours.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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) ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Windows Indexing Service Query Returns 0 Results
On Windows Server 2003, I have an Ektron installation (asp.net CMS) that utilizes Windows Indexing service for its searches. Normally this works great, but for some reason the Windows Indexing Service ...
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IIS 6.0 and Indexing Service on Windows Server 2003
I'm maintaining a classic ASP app on a Windows Server 2003 / IIS 6.0 setup. It has no code written to use the built in Indexing Service on the box, but the Indexing Service is turned on and actively ...
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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 ...
