Is legacy search available at all in Windows 7?
Indexing local drive is fine but indexing mapped network drive containing dozens of GBs is not on as is not searching common network locations all the time via network, server etc
Any ideas to share?
Windows – Search network drive without indexing it
network-sharessearchwindows 7
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I think you could be correct when you say that there's a corrupted file that causes it to hang. A crude way of trying to identify the file is to go the files tab and turn off half the files types from being indexed. Let it run. Either it completes or it stops. If it stops, turn off half again. If it completes, you know the bad file type is in the other half. Doing this should allow you to identify the bad file type.
Also, look through the file list that's indexed. File types have different search providers, like HTML, plain text and so on. Are there any that look out of place, that might have been installed by some third party application?
Another idea is let the search hang on the 4,317th file. Then run a command prompt. Type
CD c:\
DIR /s /TA /O-D >c:\newt.txt
This will create a file named newt.txt that will hold all of the files and the last time they were accessed. Accessed, meaning read, not modified. You'll have to search through the file with a file editor but look for the last several files that were modified. If we're in luck, your bad file will be in there. Good luck!
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Best Answer
Right-click your mapped drive. Click on properties in the opened menu. Then, uncheck "allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties." I believe that will fix your issue.