Where are indexes stored?

My Cloud OS 5 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud EX Series
#1

Hi,
After 41 days of “indexing” (which reached only 39%) I stopped it.
The problem is that it gobbled about 400Gb of disk.
I logged into my NAS via ssh but I can’t find where the indexes are stored.
Does anybody know where they are? Since I’m not using them I want to delete them. Turning indexing off doesn’t free them. I’d like to get my 400Gb back.

Thanks for any info on a directory or db that I can erase.
Steve J

#2

Hello,

Please refer to the following article: My Cloud OS 5 Cloud Access Content Indexing FAQ

#3

Thanks but that doesn’t answer my question.
I stopped the indexing because it’s broken in OS5 (everybody complains about it). But I want to delete the existing indexes that are eating up valuable space on the disk.
Where are they stored so I can delete them via the ssh interface?
Thanks for any help.

#4

Did you ever get an answer to this that helped you? I am in the same boat.

#5

Nope,
I’m trying to investigate but I need a tool like NCDU to check were the 400Gb of indexes have been gobbled up. I suspect a SQLite DB
When I have time, I’ll check further. Should I be successful, I’ll post the results/operations here.

#7

No it does not at all. No matter what WD writes in the doc.
I have nothing more on my NAS. The files are static. If I turn indexing on, it eats GB of space. When turning indexing off, it doesn’t free anything at all.
I had 20% free space. I let it index for weeks. Now I have 3% free. And no files were added on my side. I turned indexing off and it remains at 3% free. That’s why I want to get my space back. Nothing has been freed.

It just stops indexing. But the space where it stored its indexes is lost.

#9

This assumption is consistent with your failing to

Just looks like the assumption is consistent with you judging others without knowing what you’re talking about.