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Estimate size of Windows Search index

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Mar 15, 20265980 views
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I have to index a rather large amount of data with Windows Search, so I wanted to have an estimation of index size. I've indexed a subset of data (about 60GB; 13e6 pages of text data each about 4-5KB). The index has grown to about 78GB, so it now occupies more space than the data itself. These resu…

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Fix for: Estimate size of Windows Search index

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Average index size is not indicative of what yours would be. This is probably because in addition to all of your files getting indexed (and that would be large already as a size percentage as your files are all small) the content of text files also …

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