Posted September 30, 200816 yr On Monday, 09/29/08, my Windows Server 2003 system told me I was low on system resources, and when I checked, I only had 700 MB of 12 GB left of free disk space when I should of had 2.27 GB free space. The problem was the "CIfiles" folder, which held a 500 MB .ci file. The number in the file name was also on three other files, but they were small. The windows.edb file was 1GB. So, we stopped the Windows Search service, deleted all four "CIfiles" folder files with the filename of the 500 MB, and emptied the recycle bin. Then, the windows.edb file shrunk and the disk space increased back to 2.27 GB free space. We restarted the Windows Search service, and this morning, the C drive was down to 1.17 GB free space. I repeated the above steps and did not restart the search services. I ran a Mcaffee virus scan on the C drive, but it only revealed 12 cookies that I cleaned or deleted. The path to the files is: C://Documents and Settings/All Users/Applications/Microsoft/Search/Data/Applications/ Windows/Windows.edb. Then, from ....../Windows/Projects/SystemIndex/ Indexer/Cifiles. Has anyone else seen this kind of behavior?
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