Hello Rabidrobot,
Your post is so informative that I'm a bit lost in it. I even had to look up what "recalcitrant" means
Let's move one step at a
time.
1) You've mentioned that you have moved the documents and program files. Are the missing files under a reparse point of any kind?
How exactly did you move stuff around?
2) The recalcitrant part: I understand that you go to Indexing Options->Modify...->Show all locations (if you haven't disabled UAC).
Then you see a location such as C:\ProgramData grayed out and when you RClick->Properties->Advanced, it doesn't let you check "Index
this location for faster searches". Yo really-really don't want to let the indexer party on that particular location (or any other
with temp files or data files that programs write to all the time), but that's besides the point. I can't reproduce that, could you
give an example of one such location that I might also have on my box?
3) Is there anything in common about the missing files, like extension? Forgive me for asking, but have you verified that the file
is has the right settings in Advanced Options->File Types? Could you give an example of a missing file path and name? Could you try
moving one of the missing files into a directly that gets indexed normally and see if it would get indexed?
4) You aren't out of space on the drive where you put the swap and the index, right?
Thanks,
Ilia
"rabidrobot" <rabidrobot@SPAMSUXfeebdack.com> wrote in message news:O%233M3bSqHHA.3372@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>I have been having some difficulty with my Search Index maintaining
> integrity.
>
> I am using Vista Ultimate, and I have an arrangement of four partitions,
> two each on two (different sized)physical drives. One partiton on big
> drive is vista install, other is documents and program files. Second
> drive has a partition which I have dedicated to the search index, and
> also print spool and swap/page file.[If I knew how get all the temp and
> stray Program/AppData files out of install C: partition, I'd move them
> all...
(not vista's fault I don't think)] And second partition on small
> drive is some nearby temporary backup space.
>
> So, I have moved the Index location to essentially its own partition,
> and changed the path for the Index location in the Advanced Options
> Index Settings tab from Advanced button of Indexing Options control panel.
>
> This arrangement works great for a short time, and I mean that, when
> Vista's search is working, along with other Explorer enhancements, I am
> very satisfied. But it is not long before the Index stops finding files
> it should, stops returning results it used to return.
>
> This is the cycle and stages I have gone through a few times, in case I
> am missing a step.
>
> After corruption, by which I mean not returning valid results, is
> detected, I first confirm that the files are in Indexed directories,
> both through the lineage of path folder Properties -> Advanced and also
> checked as an Included Location from the Modify (Index Locations) pane
> of Index Options.
>
> If I can see the file and see that it should be indexed and I remember
> that it was once included in similar searches but no longer is; I lose
> faith on ever getting valid search returns, which greatly reduces utility.
>
> After I have confirmed corruption of index integrity I go to the
> Troubleshooting box of the Index Settings tab of the Advanced Options
> panel from the Index Options -> Advanced button. First I try a Rebuild.
> This is allowed to do its work, but has never repaired or restored
> files to the results.
>
> Then the only other thing I know to do is Restore Defaults. This resets my indexed locations to less than ideal defaults and
> forces me to re-select all the locations I would like to index.
>
> But many of these locations, actually, have a read only on the folder, so actually changing whether or not it is indexed is
> impossible. Unless you can take control of the folder somehow, but no methods I have seen yet allow me to control my own music
> and pictures subfolders.
>
>
> So, to sum up. Vista won't let me set indexing options via RClick->Properties, I think because of an obnoxious recalcitrant
> read-only. Since I can't set it there, my options in one of the other index locations options panels are greyed out. But it
> doesn't matter much, at the moment, that I can't set my locations, because the index can't maintain integrity.
>
> I sincerely hope someone can offer suggestions, as I have found it quite frustrating for my expensive OS, which did also require
> hardware upgrades, to constantly forget settings, refuse the sole user access, offer unhelpful to misleading troubleshooting, and
> often just silently stop working.
>
> I'm not infected. I don't have any adware, spyware, etc. These have been problems from the day of installation, but I had held
> hope that I could figure out a solution. Help, please.
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