CI files growing and reducing C drive disk space

[lmhaggblom@besafeandfree.org]

On Monday, 09/29/08, my Windows Server 2003 system told me I was low
on system resources, and when I checked, I only had 700 MB of 12 GB
left of free disk space when I should of had 2.27 GB free space. The
problem was the "CIfiles" folder, which held a 500 MB .ci file. The
number in the file name was also on three other files, but they were
small. The windows.edb file was 1GB. So, we stopped the Windows
Search service, deleted all four "CIfiles" folder files with the
filename of the 500 MB, and emptied the recycle bin. Then, the
windows.edb file shrunk and the disk space increased back to 2.27 GB
free space. We restarted the Windows Search service, and this
morning, the C drive was down to 1.17 GB free space. I repeated the
above steps and did not restart the search services. I ran a Mcaffee
virus scan on the C drive, but it only revealed 12 cookies that I
cleaned or deleted. The path to the files is: C://Documents and
Settings/All Users/Applications/Microsoft/Search/Data/Applications/
Windows/Windows.edb. Then, from ....../Windows/Projects/SystemIndex/
Indexer/Cifiles. Has anyone else seen this kind of behavior?

 

[jhawklyn]

RE: CI files growing and reducing C drive disk space

As near as I can tell the windows.edb file is created by Windoze file
indexing service. If you disable that optional service, then the files
should stay deleted.


"lmhaggblom@besafeandfree.org" wrote:

> On Monday, 09/29/08, my Windows Server 2003 system told me I was low
> on system resources, and when I checked, I only had 700 MB of 12 GB
> left of free disk space when I should of had 2.27 GB free space. The
> problem was the "CIfiles" folder, which held a 500 MB .ci file. The
> number in the file name was also on three other files, but they were
> small. The windows.edb file was 1GB. So, we stopped the Windows
> Search service, deleted all four "CIfiles" folder files with the
> filename of the 500 MB, and emptied the recycle bin. Then, the
> windows.edb file shrunk and the disk space increased back to 2.27 GB
> free space. We restarted the Windows Search service, and this
> morning, the C drive was down to 1.17 GB free space. I repeated the
> above steps and did not restart the search services. I ran a Mcaffee
> virus scan on the C drive, but it only revealed 12 cookies that I
> cleaned or deleted. The path to the files is: C://Documents and
> Settings/All Users/Applications/Microsoft/Search/Data/Applications/
> Windows/Windows.edb. Then, from ....../Windows/Projects/SystemIndex/
> Indexer/Cifiles. Has anyone else seen this kind of behavior?
>