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How to stop Windows Search from auto excluding repository folders?

Windows search indexer is adding most paths to repository folders (both .git and .svn) to the exclusion list. I can remove them manually of course, but each time i rebuild the index - they are re-added. I can add them as indexed locations, but i'd…
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Weird looking paths get added to Windows 10 search index and break search

I am using Windows 10 Pro (1709). A few times in last weeks I have noticed that search from start menu wont find any files. Simply rebuilding the index did not fix this. Looking deeper into indexing settings I found that there was strange looking…
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Windows 10 Search not working

I used WinKey + S very much on Windows 8.1. Now when I installed Windows 10 it seems to be a problem with the search indexer. It can't find anything but some 'settings' items. Things i've tried: Rebuilding the indexer Running the…
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OK to delete Windows.db file on PC?

Recently I've been having issues with my personal laptop's hard drive running out of space. After scanning my PC with WinDirStat I noticed a file named "Windows.db" (located in C:/ProgramData/Microsoft/Search/Data/Applications/Windows) taking up 116…
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How can I make Windows 10 search my settings/control panel items?

Last night I fiddled around with some settings, and now Windows 10 refuses to search my settings. If I search "Settings" it returns a result, if I search Notepad and Chrome - it works fine. But if I search "Activate" or "Update" or "Personalization"…
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OneNote is not indexing.

Recently switched computer at work and moved over my OneNote files. However seems I have lost the ability to search within OneNote. From what I can see Indexing Options is doing one thing right. It has the .One extension set to Index Properties and…
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Anything faster than grep?

I am looking for a tool that will be faster than grep, maybe a multi-threaded grep, or something similar... I have been looking at a bunch of indexers, but I am not sold that I need an index... I have about 100 million text files, that I need to…
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Windows 10 does not (or only partially) search Dropbox

I'm a Dropbox user on Windows 10, with automatic updates enabled. I've got some portable software installed in a folder in my Dropbox. When I hit my Windows key and start typing, for example "winscp.exe" (a portable program in my dropbox), no…
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Windows 10 search indexing does not find my files

I am having problems getting the search indexing in Windows 10 to work. This have been bugging me for months, and I have searched the Internet for hours without finding an effective solution. Problem: When I click on the start button and start…
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Prevent 'Searches might be slow in non-indexed locations' banner from appearing

With a fast SSD I find that Windows Search indexing is superfluous and even slows certain operations down so I have disabled it. However, when performing a search with a wide enough scope, Windows displays this banner at the top of the Explorer…
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OneDrive Personal does not show up in Indexing Options after moving to C:/OneDrive in Windows 10

I moved the location of my OneDrive Personal folder from the user-specific folder to C drive. However Windows 10 was not able to search in this folder, so I thought I would add the folder manually to indexing option. But this folder is not on the…
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How do you perform a search of filenames and contents, WITHOUT using the index in Windows 10?

I need to search for an old file in a large directory. Unfortunately, the index isn't able to locate it, and I only have keywords to search for which may be in the body of the file rather than the filename. I'd like to perform a non-indexed search…
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Manage Large E-Book Archive

I have a very large e-book archive (approx. 1TB) including various file formats eg. PDF, DJVU, MOBI and EPUB. I put them in different folders by subject eg. Engineering, Programming etc. But after many years, things are going crazy. The programming…
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KRunner file search out of date, despite baloosearch giving correct results

When searching for files with KDE's KRunner, I am getting outdated results. Calling baloosearch directly gives the expected results, which is strange, since KRunner should be using just that. For instance, when I renamed From: …
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What is the difference between modifying 'Indexing Option' and 'Allow files in this folder to have contents indexed in addition to file properties'

This article explains how to turn off the index(Link). I'm not interested in turning off the index, but I'm curious about 2 different options. In "Turn Off Indexing Selectively" section from the article, they turn it off by modifying Indexing…
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