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CI_E_NO_CATALOG_MANAGER
CI_E_NO_CATALOG_MANAGER points to catalog management or initialization state. Windows Search exposes catalog-management interfaces for tasks such as reindexing and configuring timeouts; the failure is not equivalent to “zero search results.”
Check service and catalog initialization boundaries
- Record which management or indexing API returned the code and the catalog name it was targeting.
- Verify that the Windows Search service and catalog initialization completed before issuing management operations.
- Correlate with catalog version, reset, and inconsistent-transaction errors that may prevent the manager from opening normal catalog state.
The Windows Search API surface separates query consumption from ISearchCatalogManager-style catalog administration. If a wrapper lazily acquires the manager, preserve the COM activation and interface-acquisition HRESULTs preceding this code. Restarting a query client is not a substitute for establishing the missing management object. If the service later recovers, compare initialization timing to identify a startup race rather than assuming the catalog contents changed.
Windows Search APIs · Windows Search overview · Indexing process
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