Windows 7 SP1 x64 - when troubleshooting indexing issues: Indexing will not finish on users machine. I have reinstalled windows search and indexing, moved / deleted index catalog files, reset registry settings. Indexing gets through about 50k items and then barely moves after that. User has 20GB of mail in ost and pst so I expect this to take some time, but it just stops indexing at certain points even if we leave the machine on, logged in and idle for 24hrs. 1 - how can I see what file(s) the index is currently working on? Is there any way to watch it at this level to see if the problem with the indexing is related to the files or the OS. 2 - looking at performance monitor and the search/indexing counters - does anyone have any suggestions on which monitors will help my isolate the cause of indexing not ever finishing. thanks sJ

just to add some color keep getting stopped w/ events 10024, 10023 filter host process is being forcibly terminated.....

I have seen this happen in indexing and in backup where a corrupt pst file will choke as the same point over and over again. There is no clear cut fix that I have found but not indexing the pst at the same time as the entire drive (or backup) seems to help as does rebuilding the pst. Seems to happen more on older hardware with 4 gigs or less of RAM. Hope this helps MS-MVP 2010, 2011, 2012 Sysnative.com Team ZigZag

Getting Event 3036 Gatherer - Content Source <mapi:(s-1.....) cannot be accessed. Context: Windows App, SystemIndex CAtalog Server error occurred.......

Hi, I suggest to use index troubleshooter first: Index Option\Advanced Option\Index settings\Troubleshooting\troubleshoot search and index And this article may helpful to you: http://www.eventid.net/display-eventid-3036-source-Search-eventno-8822-phase-1.htm If the issue persists, you can also try to logon with Clean Boot, or create another administrator account and login for test. Regards, Leo Huang TechNet Subscriber Support If you are TechNet Subscription user and have any feedback on our support quality, please send your feedback here.Leo Huang TechNet Community Support

Come on Leo. You and I both know that tool is basically worthless. I did run it and it was as useless as I had suspected.

thanks. the machine has 8GB ram and during initial index never goes over 30% of mem in use. I have removed all locations to index except outlook (ost,pst) I ran scanpst and all came back with errors - but from what I read this tool does not actually work. Regardless I pull down a new copy of the ost and rebuilding index now. We will see shortly. Assuming I can get this indexed I will start to add back file locations.

I am watching SearchProtocolHost and SearchIndexer read and write on the disk but Indexing Options has not changed index count in over 20minutes. Shows indexing in progress. I would say about 1/4th of the items have actually been indexed: ~20k w/ ~80k to go. Does anyone have any other suggestions or troubleshooting steps?

Just to recap: Indexing at first was completely shot. I uninstalled the service from windows, I cleaned up the registry (based on the mapi error) and deleted the index data folders. I ran a repair in Office. there are NO errors, warning, or information being reported during indexing in eventvwr. ran SCANPST on OST/PST's. Deleted and downloaded new OST file. I am currently indexing Outlook only. When it starts it is rolling ~500 items, in 10sec. But now we are at ~22k items and it is indexing 1 at a time - we have over 100k items to index in the OST alone. I am not doing anything on the machine - so indexing is running normally. I changed the priority in task manager to HIGH. I am watching SearchProtocol/SearchIndexer reading and writing to the disk. Does anyone have any suggestions? I really dont want to have to rebuild the profile. I just did on this machine recently. Nothing is being reported anywhere about an issue. But it cant be this slow. Resource wise nothing is going on. while machine is idle and indexing is running (high priority) the machine is at 1% CPU and 20% Memory util. Help please - been looking at this for two days now.

Hi, Don't worry, I am trying to involve someone familiar with this topic to further look at this issue. Regards, Leo Huang TechNet Subscriber Support If you are TechNet Subscription user and have any feedback on our support quality, please send your feedback here.Leo Huang TechNet Community Support

Hi, Does the issue happen on just this specific machine? Have you tried to logon the machine with another user to check if it happens with difference account? And also, for test purpose, have you tried using other 3^rd party search tool? Such as Everything (http://www.voidtools.com/download.php). Thanks, SpencerPlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Hi, I found a KB article which similar with the issue. You may refer to it: Windows Desktop Search 3.0 does not return Outlook 2007 e-mail items, and event ID 3036 is logged in the Application log http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930010 Another article may help: Improve Windows searches using the index: frequently asked questions http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Improve-Windows-searches-using-the-index-frequently-asked-questions# Thanks, Spencer Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Spencer please stop posting non-applicable topics to my issue. I appreciate your interest but your posts are basically spam. Please stop.

I am not trying a third part search tool. Just trying to make windows indexing work properly on this machine. Thanks.

LEo - Any update?