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By default, this is set to the following:. In my case, the PDF searching began working for me after uninstalling and reinstalling, despite every setting being identical the second time round.

When the iFilter is installed properly, PDF files on the file system will be searchable using the search in Windows. This row should contain the correct file location that corresponds to where PDFFilter. Click Features , and then click Add Features. Unknown September 1, at AM.

Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. VahidN VahidN I don't seem to be able to install 9. The setup runs but then it immediately disappear without installing anything. You can try the following: Installing iFilter with a short path without spaces, national characters and make it short. Grant full access to all users to the directory where iFilter is installed. When you make it working, you can gradually restrict access.

Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. SQL Server Search. Sign in to vote. Tom G. Saturday, March 30, PM. Hi Tom,. I just checked the configuration on my machine its working there and have Adobe IFilter9 registered. A few things to try:. All the configuration steps you have commented out in the script have already been done?

Those are the only things I can think of. Perhaps, if you can find the older version of the filter and nothing else works, you can try that. Sunday, March 31, PM. I have seen that.

Thanks for taking the time to look at my problem. Sunday, March 31, AM. Check the fulltext log files for errors. I had found one of those, that for the pointer to the second. Happy Easter Tom G. Once I found the log files id did find some errors in them. So the filter is not working but why? Happy Easter. I dropped the index, recreated it and waited for the crawl to be finished.