CI files growing and reducing C drive disk space

September 30, 2008

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?

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