Removing Full Text Catalog .ndf File from Database

Don’t know how but one of my databases ended up having one extra file (.ndf) which, apparently, contained full-text index. Since I don’t need that and I’m sure it was not there originally, I decided to amputate it from the database. To do this, I had to do the following:

1. Remove full text catalog from Database > Storage > Full Text Catalogs in Management Studio.
2. Run
   

   use DatabaseName dbcc shrinkfile('ftrow_DatabaseName_Catalog', EMPTYFILE)
   
   alter database DatabaseName remove file ftrow_DatabaseName_Catalog

   
   

This removed the .ndf file from the database storage files.