C:Amie, might I ask your assistance with KB hotfix installation?

>meta data tagged library

Wat's that?

I have a huge folder of verbatim copy of internet pages which were done with "wget -r -l 1 -p foo".

Meta data, photo, music, video.

Web certainly will have to be processed into the index. How big is the database for Windows search?

Anthing DB and search related contact me or this forum I'll support you in no time man.

I see now.

How can I learn the databse size? It indexed 1 400 000 files when I stopped it.

I also see no way of unchecking "content indexing" for all file types, did Microsoft doom me for tons of clicking?

And the file search is dull - I cannot mention separately the filename fragment and contents fragment, I cannot tell what date should be used for search - "access", "modify" or "create" date. I almost miss Win XP but well, Total Commander is fine.



Thanks! I think that this resouce hog was the only recent case which is somehow connected to the databases. As for search, I am doing it fairly rare and I am satisfied with complete directory traversal which Total Commander does.



Edited by Alt Bass 2014-06-05 5:37 PM

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows

How am I supposed to list it? I can only use cygwin to get into it.

Paste it into the address bar or set explorer to show hidden and system protected files.

Nope, it does not work that way.

Are we talking at cross purposes?

In C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows there is a file called Windows.edb. That is the search database. Mine is 4.13GB.

143MB.

Something wrong there then!

Use a tool called Terapad for notepad high end replacement. works like charm on Windows.... better than emacs on ease.

I will let it be wrong as much as it wants, I turned indexing off.




If I want to edit a big file WordPad and hexeditor do a good job for me.

Notepad++ is also nice.

TeraPad literally might be ok with TeraByte of text..... lol Thanks for tip man.

Sounds as though it must have been trying to build the index exclusively in memory. As you terminated it, it must have never committed the work.

You could try leaving it running over night of you were desperate for it back. I seldom if ever use it though. It is dreadful for searching for files, it's designed to search for content. NT4 was the last version capable of properly searching for file names so I sick to searching via command.