[BUG] All images saved with MS Paint are not indexed


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The default state for the attribute is to allow indexing. It has to explicitly be set (the attribute is called the FANCI bit, for File Attribute No Content Indexing). It was designed to be used for temporary files and such. If there was a bug in that Paint was setting this, I have not been able to reproduce it on my Win7 beta machine, so likely it has been fixed in 7.

If that attribute was getting set, it would stop the file from being indexed on Vista (on Win7 I believe it would still get indexed, as I seem to remember that the behavior was changed to allow file properties to be indexed, just not the full text contents).

Dave Wood works on my team, though over on the indexer side of things. I can follow up with him and see what he knows of this bug, and if it was a Paint issue that was fixed along the way somewhere.

I can confirm this is true using my awesome clipping tool abilities. I made the 111111 file in paint, then made the 222 file in paint and checked the index flag in the properties. 11111 doesn't show up in the search and 222 does instantly, even after 1 day of waiting.

MS paint in vista SP1 is not setting the index flag on new files.

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Well I just did some testing on my sons vista sp1 box, and sure enough the index this file is not set.

But I again I have to ask -- Who and the F uses mspaint? ;)

Is this a bug in mspaint, or something else where that bit is not being set, or being unset. You sure mspaint is the only application doing it?

Brandon is our best hope for getting to the bottom of this.. since I can not seem to find any solid info.

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