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Posted by Loren Shumway on June 6, 2006, 7:08 pm
Please log in for more thread options Thanks for the posts. I had the same problem, same symptoms.
"Gus" wrote:
> Hi again Ben,
>
> I'm now sure the disk space was eaten up by the IFilterShop ZIP filter since
> no files are in the temp folder where the 17GB waste took place. Your ZIP
> filter has been installed for several hours and my free space did not
> decreased.
>
> In the folder you mentioned (I didn' find it myself earlier), there are some
> empty folders left with morning and last night dates, that is created when
> the other ZIP filter was installed. So I can give you a nice pattern on
> folder names: zf42AF.tmp (imagine 6 hundreds of such). I'm almost sure, zf
> means zip file or zip filter and the problem was caused by IFiltershop's
> filter.
>
> Gus
>
> "Citeknet" wrote:
>
> > Gus,
> >
> > My advice would be to try the Citeknet ZIP IFilter instead
> > (http://www.citeknet.com/ifilters/zip.aspx). It won't extract all the
> > files in one go in a temp directory.
> >
> > During the indexing, the IFilter will extract only one file at a time,
> > will indexe it and then will remove it from the temp location before
> > doing the same with the next file to be indexed. So it takes less of
> > your disk space.
> >
> > Also, only files that can be indexed are extracted. For example, let's
> > say you have a ZIP file containing a ~700MB CD image (.ISO). The
> > IFilter won't waste time/disk space extracting it to a temp location,
> > as the file content won't be indexed anyway (only the file name gets
> > indexed in this case).
> >
> > Ben. -- http://www.citeknet.com
> >
> > Gus wrote:
> > > I seem to have a serious problem with MSN Desktop Search as I've recognized
> > > it ate up 17GB of disk space. One of my two volumes is 40GB, the other is
> > > 115GB. The index files created total approximately at 500MB. What I have
> > > noticed is that Desktop Search opens all zip files awating for to be indexed
> > > to <%Windows%>\Temp\!Trash (set as the value of the TMP and TEMP system
> > > variables), creating hundreds of folders, and these folders are not deleted.
> > > Some of the folders are several megabytes in size as I have some several
> > > hundred megabyte large zip files containing documents and other files that
> > > can be compressed to a very small size.
> > >
> > > I have the following filters installed:
> > > Adobe PDF IFilter 6.0
> > > Citeknet CAB IFilter
> > > Citeknet MHTML IFilter
> > > IFilterShop ChmFilter
> > > IFilterShop MsgFilter
> > > IFilterShop XmpFilter
> > > IFilterShop ZipFilter
> > >
> > > After I deleted the 17GB temp content, it was re-created in several hourse,
> > > leaving less than 1MB free space on my system volume.
> > >
> > > All help appreciated,
> > > Gus
> >
> >
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