Looking at the registry at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Desktop it looks like there is a "data_dir" key which points to the index and data folder. You could try changing the value to move the index to another folder but I haven't tried it so it might not work.
As for the files - there is no documentation for this. It is just the internal data structure. Benjamin On Apr 19, 8:34 am, sajid <[email protected]> wrote: > But thats no good because in doing so, I run the risk of not able to > find these files in next search. > > I would instead like to know what makes the index so huge? > Why cant Google just index the reference instead of actual files? > > What are .cf1 and .ht1 files really doing? > > Thanks > > On Apr 7, 2:18 pm, "Benjamin [API Guru]" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > If the index is too large for you, you could disable some folders from > > being indexed or remove filetypes that you don't need to be indexed. > > > Benjamin > > > On Apr 4, 5:26 am, Kasra <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi there, > > > > I am bringing up this issue here, since I didn't find any better > > > location for mentioning this issue. > > > > I was wondering why size of my windows profile is increasing rapidly > > > and my C drive is getting full; yesterday I discovered that 4GB of > > > Google Desktop data is sitting in the following location: > > > > C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application Data\Google > > > \Google Desktop\34dbd5969c71 > > > > When we are installing Google Desktop it is not saying that it is > > > going to become this much big! it is saying that you need to have > > > about 100MB of space to install this software. > > > > Usually the allocated space of C drive with 7200 RPM is limited and it > > > is mostly for operation system's required space and some other > > > software applications; there are usually other drives for storing data > > > which could be used for this purpose, where we have more than 1TB of > > > space. > > > > Unfortunately it looks like that the Google Desktop doesn't have any > > > option to change the location of it's data files from the path above > > > to any other specific location on other hard drives. > > > > I understand that the files inside this path include some personal > > > data from each user and this location was chosen because of privacy > > > and security reasons (windows NTFS default settings) but what is > > > making it more interesting is each user of computer is creating > > > similar size of data for indexing same files of data drives! that > > > makes it 4GB multiply by number of users! > > > > thanks for your time and consideration, I am looking forward to some > > > solutions, > > > > Best Regards, > > > Kasra Behbahani --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Desktop Developer Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Desktop-Developer?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
