Hello. I have been having a problem with SharePoint 2007 where scheduled crawls will never end yet show no errors of any description. Yet the same crawls run fine if manually started in both incremental and full crawls. This is a problem as they never start unless stopped manually. I have checked that our backups do not co-inside with the crawl schedules and the error logs of both the crawl schedule and all relevent Windows server error logs alas nothing to point me in the right direction. I am running MOSS 2007 SP1 ent on 2 WFE and 1 DB server running SQL 2005. Any suggestions greatly appreciated. Michael.

Hi, Reset your current content index and execute a full crawl agin to check if it works.Thanks, Rahul Rashu

Hi I should have mentioned I have already tried that and that the same thing happened. Any other suggestions? Thank you.

Hello Michael, Did you ever tried to change the index location ? if so please check with the suitable permissions for the content access account on that index location folder. Plan-B: If the above does not fix the issue , try creating a new test SSP (shared services ) and then check on that ssp by adding the content souces and check with the cral. Regards, Raj

Hello Michael, Did you ever tried to change the index location ? if so please check with the suitable permissions for the content access account on that index location folder. Plan-B: If the above does not fix the issue , try creating a new test SSP (shared services ) and then check on that ssp by adding the content souces and check with the cral. Regards, Raj

Hello, all permissions are correct for our content access account. In addition creating a new SSP search app yielded the same results. I am now considering upgrading the farm to SP2 before pursuing this any further unless there are any more suggestions. Thanks again. Michael.

Hello Michael, This could also happen some time if you have installed any new SP CU's but did not run the PSCONFIG wizard. Please check with the sp-updates installed on the server match with the Sharepoint version or not. If any new sp-update installed please run the configuration wizard and then check. Regards, Veera

Hello Michael, This could also happen some time if you have installed any new SP CU's but did not run the PSCONFIG wizard. Please check with the sp-updates installed on the server match with the Sharepoint version or not. If any new sp-update installed please run the configuration wizard and then check. Regards, Veera

That's a good idea. I will have to test on the weekend due to people using it all day. Thank you.

Thank you Veera. A combination of both answers resolved this.