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Windows 7 Search issues
Hi,
I have recently upgraded from XP to Windows 7 Home Premium (technically this is a new install, not an upgrade) and am experiencing major issues with the integrated Windows Desktop Search. XP was never showing any of these issues.
Configuration:
Filestore (Word,PDF,Excel and whatnot) plus PST files are on a qnap SAN, connected via mapped network drive. All that content has been indexed perfectly under XP. The UNCFAT extension to allow indexing of UNC shares has of course been installed.
Problem:
The search is indexing all email objects but only very few of the physical files, I can't identify any pattern for this behaviour. Some old ones, some new ones but even a complete index rebuild did not fix the issue.
Example: I do have a lot of word documents starting with TRUG (hundreds), only 8 recent ones are found through the search, no matter if content or filename is being searched for. Other search terms return 1 old PDF (year 2006) while there are a lot more documents.
None of the affected objects differ in any way, same word version, same template, same permissions.
And, what puzzles me most, Windows claims to have indexed around the same number of items as under XP...but is only showing marginal search results.
Any further ideas? I could buy a 3rd party application such as Copernic Desktop Search but don't see the point...the function is there and should work.
This is the only issue that's giving me fits in the moment...aside of that, Windows 7 is a damn good OS.