You have to stop the search service. See this article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa995966.aspx
Unless you disable the search service, it'll just be rebuilt though. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -----Original Message----- From: John Cook [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 11:19 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Catalogdata files Does the DB have to be taken offline to delete them? John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+ -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 11:19 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Catalogdata files The index is maintained automatically and continuously by the system. The catalogdata files should take between 5-10% of the total size of your message stores and the processor overhead is supposedly less than 5%. Even after you remove the files, it's still building them - you just can't see it because you have removed them. :-) Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -----Original Message----- From: John Cook [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 11:12 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Catalogdata files Is this something that happens every time the server is restarted and what kind of a load does this put on the server to rebuild? I just noticed these while doing some mailbox moves/ compacting and mine amount to over 10GB of space. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+ -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 11:10 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Catalogdata files They are the full-text index. If you delete them, they will be rebuilt after the next service restart. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -----Original Message----- From: John Cook [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 10:58 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Catalogdata files Which one of you Exchange gurus can splain the catalogdata files and which ones will it be OK to delete? TIA John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families Sent to you from my Blackberry in the Cloud ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
