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Last updated on 8 July 2025

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Overview

In case you have issues related to indexing: indexing and indexing manager logs provides more information about the issue. Please send those logs to M-Files Support for further investigation.

Solution

Logging can be enabled with following server-side registry settings:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Motive\M-Files\<version>\Server\MFIndexer\Logging]

"Enabled"=dword:00000001

"EnableVerboseLogging"=dword:00000002

"LogDir"="%TEMP%\MFilesLogs"

"FlushIntervalInSeconds"=dword:0000000a

"LogCategories"=dword:ffffffff

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Motive\M-Files\<version>\Server\MFIndexingManager\Logging]

"Enabled"=dword:00000001

"EnableVerboseLogging"=dword:00000002

"LogDir"="%TEMP%\MFilesLogs"

"FlushIntervalInSeconds"=dword:0000000a

"LogCategories"=dword:ffffffff

Those keys are in the registry by default, to enable the logging make sure Enabled is set to 1 and EnableVerboseLogging is 2, no need to restart M-Files Server service. 

By default the location of log files is %TEMP%\MFilesLogs. (In test environment: C:\Windows\Temp\MFilesLogs.)

After you have enabled the logs, you should immediately see following kind of files in the log directory:

MFIndexingManager_20_12_9735_8_LOG_20210201-133232Z_p27752.txt

MFIndexer_20_12_9735_8_D28F5499-AA13-4246-8A59-5F3AE30914D9-Metadata_LOG_20210201-133236Z_p22532.txt

MFIndexer_20_12_9735_8_D28F5499-AA13-4246-8A59-5F3AE30914D9-Filedata_LOG_20210201-133236Z_p6292.txt

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