Crawl Database Size

Question

So I have a SharePoint 2010 farm. Last month I noticed it was getting unreasonably bigger, everything was working fine though. Then I noticed that Search_Service_Application_CrawlerStore..... database reached 200Gb. I tried shrinking it (simple recovery) but it doesn't seem to care. Any ideas?

Answer 1

You may try these steps below. These will empty your search index before repopulating it and one will also loose crawl history.

1. Central Admin-> Search service admin -> Index Reset. This will erase all the content Index.
2. DB Server->Choose the Crawl DB ->Shrink the Crawl DB files.
3. Start a full crawl.

Reference Link explaining the steps