Glad we figured it out. If you are planning to restrict it to something safer than everyone-full, make sure to give the System full
or at least read access, or else the indexer won't be able to access them.
Thanks,
Ilia
P.S. Since you are such a search fan, here's something you might find interesting:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb266512.aspx. To make using AQS easier, you might want to check Tools->Folder
Options->Search->Use natural language search.
"rabidrobot" <rabidrobot@SPAMSUXfeebdack.com> wrote in message news:O%23uZuHYqHHA.3284@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> All right back again. You can probably skip that other post if it isn't too late.
>
> Hard to say what the ticket was, but I did these things and all my stuff that was lost is found. Some may be Red Herrings.
> Read-Only attribute is a goose chase for sure.
>
> For most of the big folders I set security as Everyone has Full Power.
> This is Right Click FOlder->Properties->Security Tab->Edit. Now I know how that works though, prolly limit full admin to single
> account, even though I'm only user.
>
> Additionally, for major / special folders I selected all the contents, right click, set properties on all at once. May be
> superstition, but it seemed like saying 'Yes' to 'Apply to subfolders' on the Parent Folder didn't quite work. But I prolly just
> was doing it at wrong time.
>
> I'm not sure where reboots are required. Here seems good.
>
> I also used
> http://www.technobeta.com/posts/add-...-context-menu/
> to 'take ownership' of some folders.
> As I said there may be a certain amount of overkill at this point.
>
> But I did it, and also changed folder props, &c. while I had the panels open applying to subfolders (although many times in past
> those wouldn't stick).
>
> I think all the settings stuck, even though the read-only persists. But this means I was able to check their Index Me boxes en
> masse. After that box is checked..(so close)
>
> Go to Indexing Options. (easy was is use handy Vista search 
at COntrol Panel Main. type 'index' and you'll see the options)
> From indexing options I see for first time‼☺ all these many many folders in full black text and free for me to pick and choose as
> locations. I see now the greyed directories you all see, and like UAC, make sense, except where I had merged files from different
> eras.
>
> From there, I think everything has been normal. I can't think of a file yet that isn't found. Thanks very much for your
> response, Ilia. WHat the files had in common was key approach.
>
> I get cranky at times, but truth is I am a huge Vista fan. And this search is great, man when it works, it is extremely useful.
>
> thanks again,
>
> Xander Lih
> "Was a member of Generation-X when being a member of Generation-X was cool."©
> http://feebdack.com
>
>
>
>
>
> Ilia Sacson [MS] wrote:
>> 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
>>