How to find if a Directory is Indexed?

Bryan Anslow

Hi, I have a simple program that uses WIN32_FIND_DATA with the usual GetFirstFile() GetNextFile() etc. What I need to be able to do is find out if the directories I pass through are Indexed or not. I cannot see an Indexed Attribute in WIN32_FIND_DATA, so that it obviously not the place to look. Also, is there some way to programmatically set a Directory as Indexed? Visual Studio 2008, Vista 64 Bit. Thanks for any advice, Bryan.

modified on Sunday, February 21, 2010 4:10 PM

Spawn Melmac · modified on Sunday, February 21, 2010 4:10 PM

Now assuming that the target system is using NTFS, the Indexing service is running and that the folder you are interrogating is included in the list of items the service will index THEN the file attribute FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NOT_CONTENT_INDEXED[^] is your best bet. Check Win32_ServerFeature in WMI for ID 71 Indexing Service Then look at ISearchCrawlScopeManager[^] at ways to query the indexing service. Hope this helps.

Alan

Bryan Anslow

Hi Alan, looks like there is a bit more to this Indexing Service than just getting an attribute bit... It seems to me that the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NOT_CONTENT_INDEXED is saying that the associated file is to be excluded from Indexing, so is not too useful for my purposes. I have been looking at the OLE DB Provider and its interaction with the Indexing Service, but this "simple" project is not going to be as easy as I had hoped. So I will leave this one on the back-burner for now. Thanks, Bryan.

David Crow

Bryan Anslow wrote:

It seems to me that the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NOT_CONTENT_INDEXED is saying that the associated file is to be excluded from Indexing, so is not too useful for my purposes.

Wouldn't the lack of the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NOT_CONTENT_INDEXED bit being set indicate this it is being indexed?

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Spawn Melmac

True. IF, and it is a big one, you have the index service installed, running and the folder was in the list.

Alan