So you go to your Search Service Application in SharePoint 2013 and see "Paused for:External request" in the Administrative Status.
I've seen this issue when a Search Service is either explicitly paused for administrative reasons, or is not properly taken offline during a system restart.
Fortunately, there's a simple way to fix it.
First, you need to clear the timer cache. You can use the Powershell script from my post here.
After that script has finished, and the cache has been reset and the Timer service has restarted on all servers, run this:
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell
$ssa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication –Identity "Search Service Application"
$ssa | Resume-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication
Be sure the "Search Service Application" matches the name of your Search Service app.
I've found that script will take a few minutes to run, while it unpauses the service app.
I have only one server in my farm. I followed your directions, deleting all of the .xml files under the guids, set the .ini file contents to 1, restarted the timer and executed the resume command but no luck!
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