Limit the size of Google Desktop's index?

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I've been using Google Desktop for almost 2 years now. I needed a little more space on my hard drive, so I poked about with WinDirStat and found my Google Desktop index file was taking up 6.1 GB (on a 60 GB HD)! I've deleted it, so it has to start over, but how can I keep the index from getting so bloated in the future?

Don't mean to be rude, but why are you still using it? The built in search on Windows is equally as good, and doesn't require such a large index. (I might be wrong, haven't used GDesktop for at least 6 years!) — Rich Bradshaw, Apr 03 '11 at 16:36
@Rich Bradshaw Still stuck on XP at work. Hopefully upgrading to Win7 soon. — C. Ross, Apr 03 '11 at 17:44

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 16 '10 at 16:10

You could try using NTFS compression on the folder, but I'm not sure how much that will help. I remember doing it in the old days before Windows 7 came along, but I don't recall what compression level I got.

Limit the size of Google Desktop's index?

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