{"id":860,"date":"2018-06-20T07:35:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T05:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itsimple.info\/?p=860"},"modified":"2018-06-20T07:35:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T05:35:50","slug":"windows-edb-is-growing-to-extreme-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/?p=860","title":{"rendered":"Windows.edb IS growing to extreme size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some time <strong>windows.edb<\/strong> file which is the search index database file for faster file search, e-mails etc . Can grow to very large size , Some times over 100 Gigs in size , The file located at hidden folder on the system drive :<\/p>\n<p><strong>C:\\ProgramData\\Microsoft\\Search\\Data\\Applications\\Windows\\<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Few simple way to reduce the size :<\/p>\n<p>1. Delete the file, windows will re-create the file<\/p>\n<pre><code>net stop \"Windows Search\"\r\n del C:\\ProgramData\\Microsoft\\Search\\Data\\Applications\\Windows\\Windows.edb\r\n net start \"Windows Search\"<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>2. Defrage the file using Esentutl it will reduce the size while keeping the index :<\/p>\n<p><code>sc config wsearch start=disabled<br \/>\nsc stop wsearch<br \/>\nesentutl.exe \/d <\/code><code>C:\\ProgramData\\Microsoft\\Search\\Data\\Applications\\Windows\\Windows.edb<br \/>\nsc config wsearch start=delayed-auto<br \/>\nsc start wsearch<\/code><\/p>\n<p>*. 64 bit : <code>C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\esentutl.exe\" \/d %AllUsersProfile%\\Microsoft\\Search\\Data\\Applications\\Windows\\Windows.edb<\/code><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>3. Rebuild the database with windows tool :<\/p>\n<pre>Control Panel -&gt; Indexing Options -&gt; Advanced -&gt; Rebuild\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-861\" src=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/rebuild-search-index-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"684\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/rebuild-search-index-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/rebuild-search-index-768x557.jpg 768w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/rebuild-search-index.jpg 852w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/><\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Good Luck<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Some time windows.edb file which is the search index database file for faster file search, e-mails etc . Can grow to very large size , Some times over 100 Gigs in size , The file located at hidden folder on the system drive : C:\\ProgramData\\Microsoft\\Search\\Data\\Applications\\Windows\\ Few simple way to reduce the size : 1. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,12,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operating-systems","category-tutorials","category-windows","category-windows-server"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}