Stopped indexing too early?

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WinXP Pro + SP2.

I discovered a recently formatted new partition was set to index its
files. I used My Computer > F drive > Properties > Allow Indexing
Service.

I unchecked the 'Allow Indexing' box and pressed ok. I saw lots of
file names pass by and after waiting for quite a while I had to press
CANCEL to stop the operation.

Now that I have cancelled the Remove Indexing half-way thru I do not
see a way to resume and continue the removal.

(1) Is this likely to give me a problem?
(2) What was XP doing as all the file names flashed by?
Was it setting a flag on each file?
(3) If so, then does the flag still need setting on some files?
 
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WinXP Pro + SP2.

I discovered a recently formatted new partition was set to index its
files. I used My Computer > F drive > Properties > Allow Indexing
Service.

I unchecked the 'Allow Indexing' box and pressed ok. I saw lots of
file names pass by and after waiting for quite a while I had to press
CANCEL to stop the operation.

Now that I have cancelled the Remove Indexing half-way thru I do not
see a way to resume and continue the removal.

(1) Is this likely to give me a problem?
(2) What was XP doing as all the file names flashed by?
Was it setting a flag on each file?
(3) If so, then does the flag still need setting on some files?
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It shouldn't be.
It was setting permissions.
It should still do so.

This is a 2k group. I see you posted it all over the place but, well, I'm
finding it in the 2k group. Not that that's a problem but it's indicative of
your not understanding the way the newsgroups work. Instead, for the future,
look to the general groups first. There's a file system group and XP general
group. You got two of them so that was good but this group really wasn't
needed. (It would be seen as many of us subscribe to a lot of groups.)

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

"We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind,
which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply
there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations." -
Sherlock Holmes
 
This is a 2k group. I see you posted it all over the place but,
well, I'm finding it in the 2k group. Not that that's a problem
but it's indicative of your not understanding the way the
newsgroups work. Instead, for the future, look to the general
groups first. There's a file system group and XP general group.
You got two of them so that was good but this group really
wasn't needed. (It would be seen as many of us subscribe to a
lot of groups.)
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Sorry Galen, didn't mean to offend about crossposting.

I would guess that NTFS indexing is a function of the file system
and a file system newsgroup is good place to ask?

I don't know Outlook Express very well but I'm sure it would kill
crossposts when it saw the same Usenet message ID come up for a
second time. If so then the problem shouldn't arise even if one
visits several newsgroups.

Or maybe the problem lies in the fact that Microsoft copies these
discussions to its web boards as well from the Usenet. Guess that
means that long standing Usenet conventions such as "crosspost
rather than multipost" do not move over well. And that problems
come up to do with how the web boards operate.
 
In WM had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
Sorry Galen, didn't mean to offend about crossposting.

I would guess that NTFS indexing is a function of the file system
and a file system newsgroup is good place to ask?

I don't know Outlook Express very well but I'm sure it would kill
crossposts when it saw the same Usenet message ID come up for a
second time. If so then the problem shouldn't arise even if one
visits several newsgroups.

Or maybe the problem lies in the fact that Microsoft copies these
discussions to its web boards as well from the Usenet. Guess that
means that long standing Usenet conventions such as "crosspost
rather than multipost" do not move over well. And that problems
come up to do with how the web boards operate.
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Oh no, I'm not easily offended. Just that you'll get flamed by people if
they notice it and insist that USENET operates by their rules. I personally
don't mind at all and answer posts where I find 'em regardless of the
subject. And OE will happily post the message in every group you go to that
the message was sent to even if you saw it in another group already. Oddly
it won't flag that message if you'd flagged the first one either. *grumble
grumble* But, well, that's OE for you.

Anyhow, back to your original question. You should be all set. I've stopped
all sorts of good things - like when adding permissions to thousands of
files at once - and it seems to take over in the background. The indexing
service should run it as a background process and carry on it's role and
perform as expected without any other issues.

And off topic again... Sometimes, to get the biggest selection, I've seen
people make good use of the reply-to section of the newsgroup headers. If
you click, with OE, View > All Headers in the body of the newsgroup message
you'll see that you can set the reply-to field to reply to a single
newsgroup if you really wanted. Crossposting, sending it to more than one
group at a time, is the convention and OE picks it up in each group. It
wasn't the cross-posting but the posting to the 2k with an XP question bit
that will - see the antics in windowsxp.general for a bit of insight if you
haven't already - get you flamed, trolled, insulted, and likely result in
your getting a negative impression of the groups. (They have some, shall we
say, interesting ones there... I frequent there so I get to see 'em in full
color.)

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

"We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind,
which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply
there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations." -
Sherlock Holmes
 
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