incomplete search results.. rebuild indexes?

[sregan]

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 confirm that the search term is in the file, but Alfresco search isn't returning that file.

I have not errors in the tomcat window now. - but I did have some during the original load.

This fourm mentions: setting index.recovery.mode=FULL in

Tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/entention/custom-repository.properties with respect to v.2.1.0  but I don't have a file by that name.

Thanks
Shawn

[sregan]

NOTE: I'm running 3.2 comunity, Win XP

[mrogers]

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.

[sregan]

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

[mrogers]

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.

[kbonnet]

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

[slowlearner]

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