XYplorer Beta Club

OK, so the indexer in my desktop search program (X1 Search) keeps choking on something. X1 support told me they think it might be due to corrupt files and suggested I delete my entire index and start from scratch, adding folder by folder and watching for the error, in order to locate the problematic files.

There is a high chance I have ​quite a few corrupt files on my computer as I collect glossaries from the internet in many different formats and dump them all in a massive folder for processing/searching

I am going to run ​​sfc /scannow from an elevated cmd prompt, to try to weed out any corrupt files.

Is there any way I might locate such ​corrupt files, using XYplorer or any other tools?

​​sfc /scannow

This is for system files, why should these get indexed at all?

A file can be corrupt in any part of it (not only the header) so as long as you don't know why the indexer is choking... The only real check if a file is corrupt would be a hash of it's last valid state.

Thanks highend. Hmm, hadn't thought of that. No, the files I wanted to check are all under C:\Users\michaelbeijer\Dropbox
Suppose I will just have to add one folder at a time to X1's index and wait until it chokes, which will then allow me to zoom in on the files causing the problem.