Lifeblog fills phone memory - how to get rid of it...

I recently started running out of phone memory, and even after deleting some files it fills up again in a couple of days. I had thought the problem was Sports Tracker, but it turns out to be "Lifeblog".
I used x-plore to look at the 160MB C:/ drive, and there is a hidden Lifeblog folder. Within this there is a file called "TextIndex.db" which is no less than 105MB!
**bleep** is going on here? I've never enabled lifeblog, I am in no way interested in such an application, so what's it doing using all my phone memory?
Also more to the point, how do I get rid of it? There doesn't seem to be a way to uninstall it given it's built-in. Alternatively is there a way to disable whatever it thinks it's doing.
Thanks for any help.

Ok I solved this but it wasn't easy - the only way to get rid of the oversized file and recover the phone was to re-flash the firmware.
The offending TextIndex.db is now 7K. Since I unchecked all the categories from LifeBlog I'm hoping it will stay that way.
This is a serious bug in LifeBlog that effectively bricks your phone, and in a way that's hard to detect unless you know how to look at hidden files/folders on the C: drive. I hope someone is looking into it.

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