topic Re: incomplete search results.. rebuild indexes? in Alfresco Archive

incomplete search results.. rebuild indexes?

sregan — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:58:12 GMT

Hi, I'm new to Alfresco.I managed to get a bunch (20,000) of pdfs loaded via the CIFS interface, but the search function does not find all of them. I can search the original documents via Windows search and find them and I can open them from within Alfresco Explorer and use the adobe search to conf

Re: incomplete search results.. rebuild indexes?

sregan — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:59:37 GMT

NOTE: I'm running 3.2 comunity, Win XP

Re: incomplete search results.. rebuild indexes?

mrogers — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:16:42 GMT

The files are indexed shortly after they are uploaded so if there was an error with your indexing when you uploaded then there is some un-indexed content. The index rebuild will solve that.

Re: incomplete search results.. rebuild indexes?

sregan — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:44:18 GMT

Yes, I'm hopeing that reindexing will solve the problem, but I don't know how to do it. The only refrence to it that I have found does not appear to apply to 3.2

Can you provide me with a link or other documetation on how to cause the indexes to rebuild please?

Thank you
Shawn

Re: incomplete search results.. rebuild indexes?

mrogers — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:07:09 GMT

Shut down your server.
Set index.recovery.mode=FULL
in your alfresco-global.properties.
Restart your server.
After it starts set index.recovery.mode back to whatever it was before you changed it to FULL.

Re: incomplete search results.. rebuild indexes?

kbonnet — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:54:53 GMT

Hi MRogers,

I have seen advice to remove the lucene-indexes directory from the alf_data. Does reindexing behave different if this directory is still there? Is the best way to start from scratch to remove the lucene-indexes?

Thanks,
Koen

Re: incomplete search results.. rebuild indexes?

slowlearner — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 03:14:40 GMT

Hi Koen, i have also seen this quite often. The lucene wiki indicates that there is no need to remove index files. Here's what it says:

When I recreate an index from scratch, do I have to delete the old index files?
No, creating the IndexWriter with "true" should remove all old files in the old index (actually with Lucene < 1.9 it removes all files in the index directory, no matter if they belong to Lucene).

http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/LuceneFAQ

hth