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NTFS Allow Indexing attribute and GPL

Carl Ribbegaard

NTFS Allow Indexing attribute and GPL

by Carl Ribbegaard » Tue, 08 Oct 2002 00:01:48

Ok Dameon, I'm wrong.
Unchecking the attribute "For fast searching, allow Indexing Service to
index this folder", for the GPL installation will cause GPL to crash to
desktop.

However, I will also have to add that this action doesn't index the files.
To have the files indexed, you will also have to have the indexing service
running, and the path in an index.
The indexing service can be found in Control Panel/Administrative
Tools/Services
You can also set it from the search tool.
And finally you can set it from the Computer Management/Services and
Applications/Indexing Service.
If you stop the service, no index will be created or used.

Also if you look in the Catalogs in the Computer Management/Services and
Applications/Indexing Service, you can include or exclude directories from
the index.

I've looked into the GPL exe, and it seems it uses the FindFirstFile API,
and there are reports that the API may be using the indexing service "under
the hood". It hasn't done that before, and it seems rather ill documented.

Here is a link to a google-search if someone want's to dig more.
http://www.racesimcentral.net/

Conclusion;
Indexing is not necessary.
Removing the allow-indexing attribute on the files will cause GPL to fail.

I'm sorry for my stubborness on this matter, but I thought you were saying
that the Indexing is vital to GPL.

/Carl

Larr

NTFS Allow Indexing attribute and GPL

by Larr » Wed, 09 Oct 2002 08:51:34

I installed GPL on a WinXP NTFS system this weekend.  Indexing is turned
off.

I am having no problems.

-Larry


> On Sun, 6 Oct 2002 17:01:48 +0200, "Carl Ribbegaardh"

> >I'm sorry for my stubborness on this matter, but I thought you were
saying
> >that the Indexing is vital to GPL.

> >/Carl

> No problem Carl. In a way indexing is vital to GPL under NTFS because
> if you do turn it off completely then GPL will crash on startup, not
> saying the files in the GPL folder need to be indexed though. Back
> when I was experiencing the problem no one knew the solution so the
> easy fix for me was to just go back to FAT32 and never use NTFS again.

Carl Ribbegaard

NTFS Allow Indexing attribute and GPL

by Carl Ribbegaard » Wed, 09 Oct 2002 14:54:26

It's simply a matter of definition :-)
I'm also have indexing turned off, but if you remove the "allow indexing"
attribute on the GPL-Folder, and subfolders/content, GPL will not find the
drivers. (right-click the folder, and select the advanced button, in the
small popup you can set a "deny indexing"-flag)
My guess is that GPL Issues a call to the FindFirstFile API in order to
retrieve the users, and that call returns a zero lenght string if the allow
indexing attribute is removed directly on the folder.

Cheers,
Carl


> I installed GPL on a WinXP NTFS system this weekend.  Indexing is turned
> off.

> I am having no problems.

> -Larry



> > On Sun, 6 Oct 2002 17:01:48 +0200, "Carl Ribbegaardh"

> > >I'm sorry for my stubborness on this matter, but I thought you were
> saying
> > >that the Indexing is vital to GPL.

> > >/Carl

> > No problem Carl. In a way indexing is vital to GPL under NTFS because
> > if you do turn it off completely then GPL will crash on startup, not
> > saying the files in the GPL folder need to be indexed though. Back
> > when I was experiencing the problem no one knew the solution so the
> > easy fix for me was to just go back to FAT32 and never use NTFS again.

Jussi 'Igor' Koukk

NTFS Allow Indexing attribute and GPL

by Jussi 'Igor' Koukk » Wed, 09 Oct 2002 22:13:47

On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 07:54:26 +0200, "Carl Ribbegaardh"

You're probaby right... disabling the indexing service seems to have
no effect, so it's not indexing itself causing the problem, it's the
allow/deny flag.
--
- Igor -


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