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  1. Adding a list column index will perform better on content queries (e.g.CQWP) that filters on that column, same goes for filtered views. Also, managed metadata navigation, which is kind of a filter, might also require that the list column is indexed.

  2. In checking on how this might be done for my list, I hit this column and went ahead and changed a value of my list from single to multi – it deleted all my metadata from that column. It has cost me quite a bit of time and inconvinience to quite a few people (I’m being polite) I tried as instructed by the MS article to change things back, but all the data is gone.

    1. Brian:

      Sorry to hear of your troubles with this. I find it odd that the data would have been deleted going from single to multi, though I would expect it going the other way.

      M.

  3. Had the same issue today in SP2013 in which several libraries were referenced as being indexed. Instead of manually removing the index on the column, the solution that worked for me was to remove the column from the Managed Metadata Filter Panel via List/Library Settings.

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