Disk Indexing


  1. Posts : 2
    Win7x64
       #1

    Disk Indexing


    Anyone have a general idea of how much space this occupies? I have a large media server and wanted to index it. Has mainly video and documents/images. Any approx rule of thumb?
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  2. Posts : 6,285
    Windows 10 Pro X64
       #2

    Found this with a Google search for size of windows 7 index file
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  3. Posts : 222
    Win 7 Ult + Starter, XP Pro +Home, 2kAS, Linux Mint 8, SuperOS
       #3

    The link above says about 10% of the size of files indexed. That would seem to be a large price to pay.
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  4. Posts : 6,285
    Windows 10 Pro X64
       #4

    Seems like a huge amount to me also, but it's all I could find and it's from a Microsoft web site.

    So if I have a 1TB drive then the index will occupy 100GB? That doesn't seem reasonable.

    Anyone else have any information on this?
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  5. Posts : 6,349
    Windows7 Pro 64bit SP-1; Windows XP Pro 32bit
       #5

    The link is for Win Search 4.0 which is an add on for below. Not Win 7 though they may take the same space.

    Windows Search 4.0 requires Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Server 2008, or Windows Home Server.
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    Windows 10 Pro. 64/ version 1709 Windows 7 Pro/64
       #6

    This might be a help.
    Start button and type in index. Go to index options and see if there is something there to help you.
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  7. Posts : 6,285
    Windows 10 Pro X64
       #7

    The only index looking stuff I can find there is in this folder:

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

    which has 43 items totaling 347Kb.
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