Windows 11 Indexing is paused

Anonymous
2022-01-13T06:55:55+00:00

What the hell is up with Windows 11 and the indexing being paused?

I was told by customer help to rebuild, which I did. And it took forever to index a few thousand files (because "indexing is paused") and was still not finished when...

Yesterday, windows took it upon itself to start rebuilding without discussing it with me first, and now I am back at square one - its taking like a bazillion years because "indexing is paused".

All search results return as not found !!!!!!!!!!

Does anybody know how to fix this ****?

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Performance and system failures

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-05-11T17:27:49+00:00

    my indexing still works since without interruptions since the "Tuesday Update" of Windows 11 of April. And I'm not aware of any size limitation of the indexes of Windows search. I have over 900,000 items:

    But probably some Microsoft developers blocked the indexing of Jennifer Lawrence pictures :-)

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-05-11T17:47:36+00:00

    LOL. But yes, mine seems to be working again today.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-05-11T18:23:48+00:00

    Never mind. Paused again

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-05-11T18:24:12+00:00

    Never mind. Paused again.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-05-11T18:34:55+00:00

    My theory is that there are several reasons why the Windows search indexing stops. Likely they all result from search-service internal bugs, but at different locations. And it seems not all bugs are hit on all installations and some of the bugs are fixed over time with specific fix packages. Probably the structure of the search context (files + Outlook emails) impacts this "bugs hit" list as well. In general I just hope that the responsible Microsoft developers are reading all these complains and try to find all these bugs and prevent to add new ones in future.

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