【Question】 IFilter x64 & Windows 7 RC x64 - not indexing content

[JayCee]

I was using Vista x32 Home Premium, WDS4 and IFilter to index text content in 20,000 PDFs with no problems.

I just installed Windows 7 RC x64, and IFilter x64 1.0.0.3213, I have enabled content indexing on the same files. The indexing service reports indexing complete, with the correct number of files, but subsequent word searches return only a few content hits.

I've tried re-building the index, removing and re-installing the filter etc. Any ideas? Is this a x64 problem?

[emily]

Hello JayCee,
Sorry I cannot reproduce the issue you reported.
Because I cannot install WDS4.0 to Windows 7 RC system.

Here is the version of my environment:
Windows 7: Windows 7 Home Premium
WDS4:
WindowsSearch-KB940157-Srv2K3_XP-x64-enu
Windows6.0-KB940157-x64
They are download form http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...wssearch4.mspx and in this link only support two kinds of WDS4.0 X64.
Could you tell me the information of your environment? It is very important for us testing.
Thanks for your help.
Emily

[JayCee]

Emily,
WDS4 is now integral to W7, that's why you can't install it.
W7 'out of the box' should have the same functionality as Vista + WDS4.

Subsequent investigation shows it doesn't work with Adobe 64 bit filter either. Otrhers have also noted this problem. It appears to affect only some kinds of PDF files (the majority unfortunately). It is clearly a problem with the search indexing engine in W7 RC and not the Foxit IFilter.

[rawon]

hi,

i got the same problem. I use x64 RTM windows7. The Ifilter only indexes the contnent very few files even though the windows search has completed indexing all of them.

anyone got any idea to fix this?

Cheers

[emily]

Hello All
About my latest test ,Foxit PDF IFilter 1.0.0.3213 x64 can work in WDS of Windows 7 RC x64, I can find the pdf files I want by typing the keyword of pdf file.
Could you help to try again? Thanks.
Emily

[JayCee]

Unfortunately I still have the problem. I don't believe it's entirely an IFilter problem but also an issue with WDS.

Here's a Technet discussion of the same problem ...
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...5-bd4440b5e829

In my case rebuilding the index makes things worse and results in no PDFs with content indexed. It appears from comments on various discussion groups that 'rebuilding' the index under W7 RC is not correctly resetting WDS to trigger a complete reindex where an external IFilter is invoked to scan content. Instead it just empties the index. I really hope they fix it soon!

I have the same partial solution as the guy on Technet. I.e. if I copy files onto the machine from another networked machine then WDS kicks into life and starts indexing PDF content - except it still only hits about 80% of the files. I can't find anything obviosuly different about the PDFs that don't index. They do have a text layer, and there's nothing different about the image encoding that I can see.

So I suspect this is a double issue. First with WDS not reindexing correctly with iFilters, and second with the Foxit iFilter having issues with some PDFs.

[wpilgri]

Did anyone even come up with a resolution to this problem? I'm running Windows 7 x64 (released version, fully patched) and cannot get PDF's to index. I have the Foxit x64 iFilter installed but no PDF files are indexed. Very frustrating. Any suggestions anyone?

Thank You