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 Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 2:14 am Post subject: How to use Google Desktop Search to delete files. |
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Hello
I started using DS about 2 months back. Did not realise lot space in my computer is occupied by files that i don''t need until DS indexed them.
How is one to delete this files - i had deleted them from my drive and emptied recycle bin , still they are on my system.
Also is it possible to reset DS ? |
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| Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 9:01 am Post subject: |
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No i don't think so sorry.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 6:17 am Post subject: |
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The only way to reset Google Desktop is to Uninstall and Reinstall. Hopefully a reset feature will come soon!
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| Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 10:12 am Post subject: |
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| rlineker wrote: | The only way to reset Google Desktop is to Uninstall and Reinstall. Hopefully a reset feature will come soon!
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It's possible to reset The desktop search besides reinstalling. There are some files floating around on the net that allow you to do a clean re-index. You can also just search for the files and click the remove button on the search results page.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 11:05 am Post subject: How to force a clean re-index without reinstalling |
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How to force a clean re-index without reinstalling
This involves modifying you registry. If you aren't comfortable with that or have no idea what I am talking about, stop now.
Note: The following instructions where changed on 4/2/05. Before that they didn't work with the new, non-beta version of GDS. Thanks to reader Mack for the help.
NOTE: I've left all this in here but there is now a tool you may want to try. It's called ReIndex for Google Desktop Search and is available here.
* Shut down GDS
* By default the index is stored in:
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Desktop Search
where USERNAME is your username on the computer. Local Settings is a hidden folder, you'll have
unhide it. If you are unsure how to unhide a file or directory read this.
Go to the folder your index is stored in and delete all the files in there
* Open up Notepad and make the following entry !C:[tab] (NOTE: Don't type "[tab]", press your tab key. If you have more than one drive or partition, add those too. So if you have a C: and a D: Drive it would look like: !C:[tab]!D:[tab] )
* Highlight all that (don't forget that last tab) and copy it to the clipboard
* Open up regedit (Start - Run - Regedit)
* Navigate to the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Desktop\HistoricalCapture\Crawler
* Double click on the CRAWL_DIRS entry and paste in the entries you made in Notepad. Note: The tabs will appear as little boxes.
* Do the same thing for CQF_FILE, but put in *[tab]|
* Click OK
* Next, double click on the CRAWL_FILE entry. Delete any entry that is in there. Most likely DONE if you have finished indexing.
* Next, double click on the CRAWL_FAV entry. Delete any entry that is in there. Most likely DONE if you have finished indexing.
* Next, double click on the CRAWL_IE entry. Delete any entry that is in there. Most likely DONE if you have finished indexing.
* Click OK
Optionally:
copy all of the following text into a file called gds.reg
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Desktop\HistoricalCapture\Crawler]
"CQF_FILE"="* |"
"CRAWL_IE"=""
"CRAWL_FAV"=""
"CRAWL_FILE"=""
"CRAWL_DIRS"="!C: " |
Note: As I stated above if you have more than one drive or partition, edit the last part the tabs so it looks like
"CRAWL_DIRS"="!C: !D: "
Save gds.reg on your desktop or somewhere you can find it again.
Make sure GDS is shut down and you've deleted the files in your index folder
then double click on the file gds.reg and say yes to the prompt about updating your registry.
Keep the file around in case you want to reindex at a later time.
* Start the GDS system again and allow your system to index all the files.
Copied From: http://users.tns.net/~skingery/firefox/GDS_Tips.html
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| Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:32 am Post subject: What? |
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You actually mean to say that you deleted the files from your hard drive, but they are still on the computer? I really can't understand how this is happening, as I've never heard of such a problem. But there is one thing you could do in three very simple steps:
1) Uninstall Google Desktop.
2) Delete the files now.
3) Reinstall Google Desktop.
Frankly, I'm surprised that no one (on this topic) thought of this before me...
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