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CI_E_INVALID_CATALOG_LIST_VERSION
CI_E_INVALID_CATALOG_LIST_VERSION is a version-contract failure for catalog list data. It should be investigated at catalog open, restore, migration, or management boundaries rather than as a query syntax error or a problem with one indexed document.
Preserve the catalog artifacts and compare producer and consumer versions
- Record the operating-system/search component version and the catalog location before any rebuild removes evidence.
- Check whether catalog files were copied, restored, or mounted from another installation or product generation.
- Correlate the error with other catalog-manager or corruption codes; a version mismatch and damaged catalog can require different recovery decisions.
The Windows Search service owns catalog management, and Microsoft describes the catalog as the unit containing indexed property and text structures. Version markers protect readers from interpreting incompatible on-disk structures as valid indexes. If a rebuild is acceptable, it may restore service, but for root-cause analysis first identify how the catalog crossed a version boundary. Retrying queries cannot repair a list-format contract that fails before normal catalog access.
Windows Search overview · Search catalog APIs · Full-text catalog components
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