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I have a SharePoint 2007 farm that has an index server and two query servers. The query servers are also the WFE's. I am running out of space on my index server. I have cleaned up all that I can from the drive the index files are located on. Now I am looking at the index files and I am curious if I can delete files older than the last full crawl. The last full crawl completed on 9/8 and I see a lot of files that are older than this. Can I delete all of the files older than 9/8 without affecting search? Currently my index directory is at 58GB where the query servers only have 18GB for the index. So I am thinking I have 40GB of junk. Thanks

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0% accept rate, doesn't sounds good with that much reputation :) – Muhammad Raja Sep 10 '12 at 13:30
that will teach me to remember to go back to my questions and mark answers :) – Cory Sep 10 '12 at 13:40

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40gb, it's your crawl index database log I'm sure unless you have a stupidly large sharepoint installation.

This has been answered before so here is how to reduce all the empty space.

If you happen to have a massive installation I would look at some more storage space and look into spreading your index over a couple of dedicated drives. (But I doubt it is this)

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It wasnt the search database but the index files that were taking up all the space. It finally ended up cleaning itself up once it got to a certain point, not sure how it decided where that point was. Now I have 38GB back. Thanks for the link. – Cory Sep 10 '12 at 14:25

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