How to eliminate Event code 3036 warning 1

[wchull]

My Windows 7-64-bit machine is reporting an event 3036 warning each time the WSearch service is started. Although benign, I would like to be able to fix this issue. I have searched the internet for a solution and have come up empty handed Here are the details:

Event type: Application
Source: Search
Event ID: 3036
Level: Warning
Event Source: Windows Search Service
Context: Application, Systemindex catalog
Details: The object was not found. (HRESULT : 0x80041201) (0x80041201)
The content source csc://s-1-5-21-287814290-815585838-4093042447-1000 cannot be accessed

If anyone knows how to eliminate this event, please let me know.

 

[Lemon13]

Check the sid and to wich user it belongs, from there investigate further

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Identifier

M. Knorr

MCSE, MCTS, MCSA, CCNA

 

[linney]

There is some things mentioned in here that might give you an idea in that it suggests that the error is being caused by a missing (or incorrect access permissions) Registry Key?

Windows Desktop Search 3.0 does not return Outlook 2007 e-mail items, and event ID 3036 is logged in the Application log

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930010

 

[wchull]

Linney,
Thanks for the reply. The link to the article you send me was not exactly my problem but I'm making a bit of headway. on another post I have out there someone indicated that the CSC in content source line means "client side cache" and that if I were to disable indexing of the offline files that would resolve the warning. It did. Now I'm trying to figure out if I have solved a problem or masked it. Need to do some research.

 

[wchull]

I'm still a bit perplexed by the event and perhaps someone can shed more light on this. From what I gather if you do want to work on off-line files then a copy of the file would be stored somewhere on my PC which I assume to be the C:\Windows\CSC folder and the way I had it set up before the search service was attempting to index any offline files stored in that folder. I would also "assume" that it you have never had a need to work with offline files then the CSC folder would be empty therefore nothing to index but the warning was not that there was nothing to index the warning was that something could not be accessed. What I'm "assuming" is that the underlying problem still exists and that it I found the real cause of the access issue then the step taken to turn off caching of offline files would be unnecessary. So, even though I have a work around I would really still like to determine what the issue is so if anyone has any next steps I'd appreciate the help.

 

[linney]

If you drilled down as far as you can in this location C:\Windows\CSC\v2.0.6 making sure the access permissions are allowing access to all files along (and below) that path, then maybe the error would not occur?

HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP (or Vista)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421/en-us

Error Message: "Access Is Denied" When You Try to Open NTFS File System Folders

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q823306#appliesto

Add encrypted files to the list of possible reasons for Access Denied.

 

[wchull]

Linney.

To make a long story short I tried drilling down into the CSC folder and in the only subfolder in CSC I was denied access but when I looked at the security it said that there wasn't even an owner of the folder so I took ownership. I then drilled down into that folder and found 2 more folders that had no owners either so I took ownership of those two. Note that taking ownership was the only thing I did. I then when back into the indexing function in control panel, turned on indexing on the off line folders restarted my system and NO Warning. Seems that no ownership was the issue which I'm not not going to try and figure out because I won't find an answer to that anyway.