I have re-indexed several times, moved the location of the index, removed and resinstalled WDS (twice, including once where I removed registry keys, and I have deleted any leftover folders), installed the enterprise WDS, and gone back to normal WDS - all to no avail.
It happily indexes, and there is a big index file, but I can't use it!
Help!
We have verified the same scenario at our end & this worked fien. On restore the backuped data is properly indexed and we are able to see proper results on query.
One important thing: After restore did you make sure the index locations is set to "Email & All Hard drives" in options ( If you re-install WDS by default this option is "Email & My Documents) and we remove all the already indexed data in other locations and the indexing status dialog simply shows the URLs, but that might be either newly indexed/ can even be URLs being removed. I think its later one in your case and hence you didnt see results in the end.
Try changing the indexing locations to "Email & All Hard drives" & see is that works.
Thanks for the reply, and sorry for my late response!
Unfortunately this has had no effect, so I bit the bullet and rebuilt the laptop over the holidays.
Thanks for your help.
Hi,
My name is Bill Connors – I’m a Program Manager who has just recently joined the Windows Desktop Search team to work on improving the Forum user experience.
Do you need any further help with this?
Regards,
Program Manager
Windows Desktop Search
