WDS Takes too much harddisk space?

WDS Takes too much harddisk space?

• AsifHameed1

  Hello Six,

  Sorry it has taken so long to get you a reply. The size of the WDS index is difficult to predict. There are a number of factors that come into play with index size. Here is some basic information that may help us determine if this is a bug or expected behavior.

  WDS indexes textual content of files. It does not index media (though it does index media metadata). It should also be noted that WDS indexes the first 2MB of the textual content of any file. For sake of reference, 2MB of text is approximately the size of the novel Moby Dick.

  With that said, you can see the following:

  - If most of your data is made up of media, your index is likely to be small, because WDS will only index the file metadata (name, location, etc.).

  - If most of your data is made up of text, your index is likely to be larger, because WDS will index quite a bit of the file. Furthermore, if most of your data is made up of text files 2MB or smaller, WDS will create a rather large index, because it will index the majority of your data.

  If much of your data is text content, then a 5GB index may not be out of the question. If you do not have many text files at all, 5GB could represent a problem. It is also worth noting that we index more of a document than Google Desktop Search (significantly more if I remember Google's specs correctly) so the fact that WDS builds a bigger index is not surprising.

  Please let me know the approximate make-up of your file content (50% media, 40% text, ...). That will help us determine if there is an issue.

  Thanks,

  Paul Nystrom - MSFT

  
  
  

• Robert Mileski

  WDS is working fine now :-)
  I have indexed my audio drives (about 60 Gb) so far and it only takes up 165 mb of space.
  So there was clearly some buggy behavior the first time I used it since it took up more than 5 Gb.
  
  
  
  

• chamsoft

  Thanks for your response.
  
  Hardly any of the files on my harddisk are text. I use my computer mainly for making music and so there are a lot of long and short audio files and plugins. So I would say that maybe 5-10% is text and the rest is audio/video/non-text files.
  
  

• Sephiroth_

  Well, I'm going to have to uninstall because I don't have anymore free space left. The program takes up 4.89 Gb harddisk space and still indexing.
  
  

• ShrikantBijapurkar

  Hallooooooo 192 people have read my post so far and not even one reply.
  Please; how much harddisk space is the program supposed to use while indexing and afterwards
  
  5 Gb makes no sense at all, so I still think something is wrong.
  
  

• VoiceOfExperience

  2 days have passed with no replies. Are there no moderators here who can answer my simpel question How much harddisk space does your WDS take up on your systems and how large are your harddisks
  
  I'd still like to use the program unless it really does take up more than 5 Gb of harddisk space.
  
  
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