Microsoft KB Archive/224118

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OFF2000: Error Message "There is not enough disk space available on your computer to create the index."

Article ID: 224118

Article Last Modified on 1/24/2007

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APPLIES TO

• Microsoft Office 2000 Developer Edition
• Microsoft Office 2000 Premium Edition
• Microsoft Office 2000 Professional Edition
• Microsoft Office 2000 Small Business Edition
• Microsoft Office 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q224118

ERROR MESSAGE

When you run the Find Fast Indexer utility, the following error message appears:

There is not enough disk space available on your computer to create the index. Free some space on your hard disk to allow Find Fast to continue indexing."

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Find Fast could not create an index for <drive>. Click Show Indexer Log on the Index menu for more details.

where drive is the drive letter for which Find Fast is attempting to create the index.

NOTE: Microsoft Office 2000 has built-in functionality that allows you to get more information about difficult-to-troubleshoot alerts or error messages. If you want to enable this functionality for this and other error messages in Microsoft Office 2000, please download the Microsoft Office 2000 Customizable Alerts file from the Microsoft Office Update Web site at the following address:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8FBEE1D3-C5BB-4A36-A2F7-DC63DE2A818C

NOTE: If you reached this article by clicking the Web Info button in an error message, you already have Customizable Alerts enabled.

CAUSE

This problem will occur when the Find Fast program attempts to index Office documents on a drive that does not contain enough free space to create the index files.

THINGS TO TRY

Check to make sure that you have enough disk space available. If you are running low on disk space, delete any files or folders that you are not using and empty the Recycle Bin to create more available disk space.

If you are running Windows 98, you can free up disk space by running the Disk Cleanup program included in the System Tools folder.

For additional information about the Disk Cleanup tool, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

186099 Description of the Disk Cleanup Tool in Windows 98

For additional information about Microsoft Find Fast Indexer, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

205289 OFF2000: Overview of Find Fast Indexer

199787 OFF2000: How to Disable the Find Fast Indexer

200306 OFF2000: Performance Issues After Installing Find Fast

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