Hello all,
I am having a few issues with Adobe's iFilter on a Windows 2008 R2 server. It creates a separate folder at C: for most indexed PDFs containing a copy of the PDF resulting in hundreds of folders at least, if not thousands (hard to count them all but the C: drive on my server is a disaster because of these!). Searching about this issue brings up several different suggestions, none of which seem to consistently solve the problem. I'll summarize what I've found so far.
The iFilter installer is located here:
Adobe - Acrobat : For Windows : PDF iFilter 64 11.0.01
The administrators guide seems to be pulled as Adobe Reader 9 has reached EOL.
A discussion here:
iFilter9 x64 - indexing files on network location
seems to suggest the issue is caused by folder permissions to the Windows %temp% folder
This discussion
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2278426
suggests that changing the path for %temp% from C:\Windows\temp to C:\Windows\temp\ may solve the issue
this discussion
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1140525
suggests that the registry key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Search\Gathering Manager\UseSystemTemp may be at fault.
However, I noticed on the iFilter download page (first link above) that it seems this product should not be installed separately anymore - it specifically mentions that
Adobe currently bundles a 32-bit PDF iFilter with Adobe Acrobat® 11 as well as the free Adobe Reader® 11 software. It uses the Microsoft iFilter interface and allows third-party indexing tools to extract text from Adobe PDF files. |
This seems to indicate that I shouldn't install this ifilter at all, but instead should be installing a newer version of Adobe Reader (like DC) directly on the server. Since end users don't use the server directly, but rather through windows file sharing, Adobe Reader has never been installed on the server itself. To add PDF file type searching to the built in windows indexing service are we just supposed to install Adobe Reader on the server, and not this apparently deprecated ifilter installer? If that's the case, it is not nearly obvious enough on the ifilter download page.
Thanks for any suggestions. What it seems like is that I should be uninstalling the iFilter and just installing the latest Adobe Reader on our file server. If this is correct (and confirmed) would it be okay to reference this thread in some of those unanswered threads? Searching for this issue brings these same unanswered threads up over and over.
Thanks,
-Derek
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1140525
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