Index woes

[Myron Bennett]

I've just spent a half-hour looking through this newsgroup trying to
find if my problem has been discussed before, but not quite any has
addressed it.
I noticed that after I'd made a few changes to the tree, making new
folders and lmoving files here and there, months later SEARCH will
tell me that a file is in a folder that doesn't exist any more.
I thought it would be an idea to "rebuild index." But when I tried,
the panel that showed up and which looked like it was what I wanted
had a line saying (not exact quote) please wait for the report on the
index.
One time I tried I let it wait for seven hours, no change.

Tried several ideas I got from the past messages here, but none
suited or worked.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance of course.

 

[Jon]

I've just spent a half-hour looking through this newsgroup trying to
find if my problem has been discussed before, but not quite any has
addressed it.
I noticed that after I'd made a few changes to the tree, making new
folders and lmoving files here and there, months later SEARCH will
tell me that a file is in a folder that doesn't exist any more.
I thought it would be an idea to "rebuild index." But when I tried,
the panel that showed up and which looked like it was what I wanted
had a line saying (not exact quote) please wait for the report on the
index.
One time I tried I let it wait for seven hours, no change.

Tried several ideas I got from the past messages here, but none
suited or worked.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance of course.

Try the 'Restore defaults' option followed by an immediate reboot.

 

[Myron Bennett]

Could you be more specific? Which defaults? I've spent a lot of time
changing defaults here and there. Thanks

 

[Jon]

Could you be more specific? Which defaults? I've spent a lot of time
changing defaults here and there. Thanks

Control Panel (Classic View) > Indexing Options > Advanced > Restore
Defaults > ok
Reboot immediately.

Wait for indexing to complete and you're done

 

[Myron Bennett]

I was afraid of that --- I've tried that path. That is where I press
INDEXING OPTIONS and I get the Indexing Options screen, but that is
where it gives me the words (and I'm quoting accurately)

Waiting to receive indexing status ...

and the seven hour or however long I wait nothing happens.

I should have spelled that out in my first message.

Any other ideas, anyone?

 

[Dave Wood [MS]]

If you are seeing that, and it persists after a reboot then most likely your
index has got corrupted. If you are comfortable modifying the registry then
go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Search and set
SetupCompletedSuccessfully to 0. And then reboot which will cause the
indexer to restart from scratch.

 

[Myron Bennett]

I'm not quite comfortable. I opened regedit and found the line you
cite, and pressed edit, but that didn't let me change what I thought I
should. It is a bunch of digits ending in 0 or 1?
If you could lead me step by step through the last stages, I'd
appreciate it.

 

[Jon]

You put your mouse over where it says 'SetupCompletedSuccessfully' in the
right pane. Double-click the left mouse button to open it up. Press the '0'
key once (doesn't matter if 'decimal' or 'hexidecimal' is checked in this
particular case). This replaces the 1 with a 0. Click 'ok'. You should then
note that the 'SetupCompletedSuccessfully' shows a value of 0. Close the
registry. Then reboot as Dave advised, and your index should be restored.

 

[Rich Stevens]

In editing the registry to repair the index (stuck on maintenance and will not rebuild), in the registry, under SetupCompletedSuccessfully , under Data, I have 0x00000001 (1). Do I change this to 0x00000000 (0) or 0x00000001 (0) or just 0? Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I haven't done much registry editing.

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[Andrew McLaren]

In editing the registry to repair the index (stuck on maintenance and will
not rebuild), in the registry, under SetupCompletedSuccessfully , under
Data, I have 0x00000001 (1). Do I change this to 0x00000000 (0) or
0x00000001 (0) or just 0? Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I
haven't done much registry editing.

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Hi Rich

You can just enter a simple "0" ... Regedit will understand what you mean.

Hope it helps,

 

[Pete]

I did a the regedit change and Im still having the same problem.

Waiting to receive indexing status ...

I cant click on any buttons in the indexing options

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[David]

I did a the regedit change and Im still having the same problem.

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"the" regedit change? i dont see any other posts from you here. what
exactly are u referring to?

 

[Guest]

Suggest that in the future Vista adds some sort of subroutine for when a
person changes a drive letter on their hard disk partitions that the WSearch
HKEY entry below is updated, more specifically the DataDirectory entry under
Windows Search. I recently changed my Index partition's drive letter from F:
to B: and lost my ability to do any fast searches (since I don't use
floppies, both A and B are assigned hard disk partitions). Everything was
grayed out and only by finding out this registry entry could I get it to work
again. At least the ability to do something under advanced should be
available and not grayed out.

By the way, I'm now looking at my registry entry again, and it has switched
it back to F: (i.e., F:\Index)! At least, because advanced is not grayed out,
now I can try to set a new location and pray that that works....