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Asked: 2026-05-12T18:05:42+00:00

When restoring my database i have a problem with the physical file of the

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When restoring my database i have a problem with the physical file of the full text catalog being in use.

The file 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\FTData\MyCatalog' cannot be overwritten.  It is being used by database 'demo2'.

I use this restore statement

 RESTORE database demo from disk = N'c:\temp\demo.bak' WITH REPLACE 
,MOVE 'demo_Data' TO 'd:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server 2005\MSSQL\Data\demo.MDF'     
,MOVE 'demo_Log' TO 'd:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server 2005\MSSQL\Data\demo.LDF';

A solution would be to restore without the full text catalog, but i can’s figure out how to do that.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I have had to restore databases with full-text as well (in fact, fixed my auto-restore script to auto-restore full-text index as well)

    I don’t know any way to NOT restore them (SQL restore will give you an error if you don’t specify RESTORE WITH MOVE for the full-text index, unless there is a path that matches the original path inside the .bak file)

    I suggest

    1. restore the entire database, including full-text index
    2. delete all full-text index inside the database
      enumerate all full-text catalogs
      SELECT name FROM DB.sys.fulltext_catalogs (SQL2005/2008)
      then generate the drop command (you may have to drop the index on the tables before dropping the catalogs)
      DROP FULLTEXT CATALOG [name]
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