Hi,
I'm developing an iFilter for a custom file format on a client's system running SharePoint 2013.
The file extension is .NEZ - it's ASCII - just a bunch of x,y,z points followed by an optional description.
When crawled, SharePoint seems to look at the contents of the file, sees that it's ASCII, it then indexes the file itself without calling my iFilter. This is a problem because the files could be a few megs and only about 2K is really text that needs to be indexed (real purpose of iFilters).
It's not like I'm trying to replace a native indexing system like DOCX or PDF - this is a specific file extension for a single customer.
I've tried using: Set-SPEnterpriseSearchFileFormatState (To disable parsing of a file format using a built-in format handler) - but .NEZ is not a file format that should be parsed by SharePoint - unless it's just detecting that it's ASCII.
Is there a way to stop SharePoint from doing this? Or am I missing something?
Thanks,
Carl Ransdell