Disk Indexing

[Converse]

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?

 

[Ztruker]

Found this with a Google search for size of windows 7 index file

 

[fafhrd]

The link above says about 10% of the size of files indexed. That would seem to be a large price to pay.

 

[Ztruker]

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?

 

[Hopalong X]

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.

 

[Layback Bear]

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.

 

[Ztruker]

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.