The file reached the maximum
download limit. Check that the full text of the document can be meaningfully
crawled” in the Crawling log Error.
Issue: The file reached the maximum download limit. Check
that the full text of the document can be meaningfully crawled” in the Crawling
log Error
Description: Since working
with SharePoint 2013, I had lot of crawl warning saying the file was not fully
indexed as it reached the maximum download limit: “The file reached the maximum
download limit warnings. Check that the full text of the document can be
meaningfully crawled”.
Cause: it was an ‘issue’
with the new search engine (now SharePoint 2013 is fully using Fast as search
engine) as my content was properly crawled with SharePoint 2010.
Solution 1: The solution
is (off course) to increase the download limit for the index process.
1) Open the SharePoint Management Shell
2) Run the following commands
a. $searchapp = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication
b. $searchapp.GetProperty(“MaxDownloadSize”) |this command is just to check
the current value; default is 64
c. $searchapp.SetProperty(“MaxDownloadSize”, <value>) where you
replace <value> with the download limit; for example, 128
d. $searchapp.Update()
3)
Restart the server
4)
Do a full crawl and the ‘download’ warnings will
disappears
Solution 2: Please change
the registry settings for search as below.
1.
Start Registry Editor (Regedit.exe).
2.
Locate the following key in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\15.0\Search\Global\Gathering Manager
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\15.0\Search\Global\Gathering Manager
3.
Open Edit – New – DWORD Value. Name it
MaxDownloadSize. Double-click, change the value to Decimal, and type the
maximum size (in MB) for files that the gatherer downloads.
4.
Restart the server.
5.
Start Full Crawl.
Note: Increasing the file size may cause a timeout exception. How To increase
timeout value check the Article below.
http://expertsharepoint.blogspot.de/2013/12/this-item-could-not-be-crawled-because.html
