Vista indexer eating up HDD space pknowles <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> 12/26/2008 2:14:49 PM I have a 100GB partition that I keep Vista Ultimate x64 on with all my installed programs. It normally only takes up roughly 40GB of the 100GB. Yesterday I got a hard drive full warning and I cleared restore points to recover some space. Using WinDirStat I found that the folder "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Projects\SystemIndex\Indexer\CiFiles" has 36GB worth of files all dated within the last 3 days. The big ones are all .ci files. What are these and how can I get rid of them or at least manage the size. Thanks. Phil K. -- pknowles

Re: Vista indexer eating up HDD space The Max <max.imus[ at ]geemail.com> 12/26/2008 4:52:02 PM On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:14:49 -0600, pknowles <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] > >I have a 100GB partition that I keep Vista Ultimate x64 on with all my >installed programs. It normally only takes up roughly 40GB of the >100GB. Yesterday I got a hard drive full warning and I cleared restore >points to recover some space. Using WinDirStat I found that the folder >"C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Projects\SystemIndex\Indexer\CiFiles" >has 36GB worth of files all dated within the last 3 days. The big ones >are all .ci files. What are these and how can I get rid of them or at >least manage the size. Thanks. > >Phil K. Do you need to use the search function very often? Do you use it to search inside of files for text strings? If no... you might think about turning indexing off completely and using a product called AgentRansack - a simple but good search utility that's free. I don't know if the size of the indexing files/folder can be managed any other way. Max

Re: Vista indexer eating up HDD space "On Request" <someone[ at ]email.somewhere> 12/27/2008 2:54:57 AM While I don't know the answer to your specific question, I checked my folder with the .ci files and it has only 52 MB, not GB. If it were me, I would go to Indexing Options| Advanced| Rebuild, and rebuild my search index. If you stay off the keyboard and mouse for about 30 minutes, it will rebuild in that time (if you keep using the computer, it may take hours). I would also make sure that I am indexing only the types of files that I really need (like avoiding encrypted files, etc.). If you are still having the problem, try it again, and first click on 'Restore Defaults'. Good luck. "pknowles" <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> wrote in message news:423cfb1e500701befdb2a5d672dbb724[ at ]nntp-gateway.com... [Quoted Text] > > I have a 100GB partition that I keep Vista Ultimate x64 on with all my > installed programs. It normally only takes up roughly 40GB of the > 100GB. Yesterday I got a hard drive full warning and I cleared restore > points to recover some space. Using WinDirStat I found that the folder > "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Projects\SystemIndex\Indexer\CiFiles" > has 36GB worth of files all dated within the last 3 days. The big ones > are all .ci files. What are these and how can I get rid of them or at > least manage the size. Thanks. > > Phil K. > > > -- > pknowles