How to Remove Full-Text Indexing Information

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This topic explains how to remove full-text indexing information.

Before You Begin

Before you perform the procedure in this topic, be aware that the procedure contains information about editing the registry.

Warning

Incorrectly editing the registry can cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Problems resulting from editing the registry incorrectly may not be able to be resolved. Before editing the registry, back up any valuable data.

Procedure

To remove full-text indexing information

  1. Open Exchange System Manager. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Microsoft Exchange, and then click System Manager.

  2. In Exchange System Manager, navigate to the storage group which contains the full-text index that you want to remove.

    Navigating to a storage group

    Exchange System Manager showing a recovery storage

  3. Right-click the mailbox or public folder store that contains the full-text index that you want to remove and select Delete Full-Text Index.

  4. Close Exchange System Manager.

  5. Open Registry Editor. Click Start, click Run, type Regedit, and then click OK.

  6. In Registry Editor, locate the following key:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Search\1.0\Databases

  7. Under Databases, click ExchangeServer_<ServerName>, where <ServerName> is the server from which you want to delete full-text indexes.

    Viewing the registry

    a2f8177e-717b-4a7c-a10c-9b9abd25891d

  8. Record the value data for the key value LogPath. By default, it is

    <drive>:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\ExchangeServer_<ServerName>\

    where <drive> is the drive where Exchange was installed and <ServerName> is the name of the server running Exchange.

  9. In Windows Explorer, or at a command prompt, find the folder that you recorded in the previous step.

    Warning

    Because you are going to delete files from this folder, consider copying the contents of this folder to a safe location to save the folder information in the event an error occurs while deleting the files.

  10. Under the **ExchangeServer_*<ServerName>***folder, delete the contents of the Projects and GatherLogs subfolders. Do not delete the Projects and GatherLogs folders. View the contents of the Projects and GatherLogs folders to make sure that the folders are empty.

  11. Close Windows Explorer or the command prompt.