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The reason why so many people are lost with both files and emails is due bad directory/file management in Windows. I have 400Gb storage place on my server and i know where is the every file etc stored, and really don't need index search to find it. Having said that i barely use the regular search to find something. In order to fix directory structure in the windows i had to reorganize everything, manually and by using permissions. The problem is that system lets you save your files at any place you want, where overtime you get a such mess where i guess only index search can help you out to find the files you're looking for having the fact the station is used by multiple users.

How hard is it for you to understand that even though *you* don't need index search doesn't mean other do?

I'm a programmer. I receive a lot of mails related to work. Index search allows me to find out about a mail I received 2 weeks ago, based on the name of sender & a word that has meaning in the context of my search. All it takes using WDS is windows+S, then type from:someone contextword.

Also, as a programmer, I have TONS of source files to handle. I'm not talking of badass 400Gb of storage which I'd guess must look like 80 isos of 4Gb each, which indeed makes things easy to find back. I'm talking 45000 different source files, in 800 folders. Go find something manually in that case - a simple search takes a minute to complete. And I do have a raptor, mind you.

Anyway. Bottom line is, indexing is the logical next step, and it would be stupid not to take it. Storage keeps growing, the number of files kept by any user keeps growing, hence finding a specific file is BOUND to be harder. It's pure math. You might not care for it, others do, me included.

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It's not hard to limit the actual user to save the files only into the my documents (whatever is called) folder which should be organized in such a way where the files with certain extension can go into certain folder.

search for file with extension, let's say *.doc if system saves those files under my documents and settings only in the system specified folder (call it wordDocs). System would know where to search for *.doc file which resides in one location namely directory and its subdirectories

Are you serious? Saving files in directories soley based on extensions? That would suck!

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davidhunter

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searchindexer is driving me up the walls. It started yesterday out of the blue and I left my PC running over night. Its still running at 100%. I need to go to taskmanager and delete it just to get onto my pc. I set it at low priority yet it still hogs 100% when I am doing anything. I take it there is something wrong with it. How do I permanently or temporarily stop it. Even in task manager I only have a few minutes after stop process then it starts up again.

I also thought within 'installed programs/ programs running' i could stop it there but it does not allow that. I also noticed about 10 programs installed with no name, does anyone else have this problem ? Running office 2007 and outlook as my mailer if that makes any difference.

Think for me the only option may be format C. Its a real pain because I am using a striped RAID system and its a pain to reinstall.

Thanks for any help

Davy

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davidhunter

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thats magic worked no more stupid search engine using up my CPU. I am annoyed why it went wrong though. Think as I have only put Vista on will probably do a full reformat and reinstall again to see if it self corrects. Do you think its a conflict with microsoft outlook as some seem to suggest ?

Thanks

Davy

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