Move Search Index to Another Drive

By default, your search index is stored on the C:\. As you continue to add content to your intranet, the size of the search index will increase.

If there isn’t sufficient space on the C:\ you can move the search index to another drive as follows:

  1. Open a Command Prompt with Administrator privileges
  2. Change to C:\elasticsearch\bin
  3. Type “C:\elasticsearch\bin\service.bat remove’ to uninstall the ElasticSearch service
  4. Close the Command Prompt (to prevent issues moving folder in next step)
  5. Copy the entire C:\elasticsearch directory to another location, for example G:
  6. Open a Command Prompt with Administrator privileges.
  7. Change to the directory where the elasticsearch folder was copied to (G:\elasticsearch\bin)
  8. Type ‘G:\elasticsearch\bin\service.bat install’ to reinstall the ElasticSearch service
  9. Type ‘G:\elasticsearch\bin\service.bat start’ to start the service
  10. In the intranet, restart the application to re-establish the connection to search:
    • Click Admin, and choose Setup
    • Near the bottom of the page, under Intranet Application click [restart]

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