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LOL, I actually read that. Any idea of what these files do and how they clear up? More curiosity at this point.
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LOL, I actually read that. Any idea of what these files do and how they clear up? More curiosity at this point.

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Hi<br />
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They are used for searches e.g. outlook in online mode, mobile devices and while running ediscovery.<br />
To bad there is no simple delete my temp garbage option in exchange.<br />
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Cheers
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Hi

They are used for searches e.g. outlook in online mode, mobile devices and while running ediscovery.
To bad there is no simple delete my temp garbage option in exchange.

Cheers

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ah, so it keeps old outdated indexes until reboot?
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ah, so it keeps old outdated indexes until reboot?

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I am facing same kind of CI folder growth issue. Would like to understand what exactly is happening in the backend and would like to know about content merge
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I am facing same kind of CI folder growth issue. Would like to understand what exactly is happening in the backend and would like to know about content merge

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I noticed a large folder on my DB volumes with large .DAT files. Can these be cleaned out or deleted?<br />
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MountPoint\4C82D45E-EADD-4<wbr />2B-B272-50<wbr />D45FG5L83A<wbr />12.6.Singl<wbr />e\ms\%defa<wbr />ult\part.0<wbr />00000db.me<wbr />rge
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I noticed a large folder on my DB volumes with large .DAT files. Can these be cleaned out or deleted?

MountPoint\4C82D45E-EADD-42B-B272-50D45FG5L83A12.6.Single\ms\%default\part.000000db.merge

Exchange 2013 - Index Merge logs

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.