If you want to index your hard drive, you'll need to keep a copy of the current file system's directory/files structure. Otherwise, you won't be able to remove from your index files that have been deleted.
On Jul 5, 2012, at 12:18 PM, Erick Erickson wrote: > Hmmm, it's not quite clear what the problem is. But let's > say you have indexed your hard drive. Somewhere you'll > have to keep a record of what you've done, say the timestamp > when you started looking at your hard drive to index it. > > Next time you run, you simply only index files that have changed > since the last timestamp, assuming you want any changed > documents on your disk to reflect those changes. That's usually > what's meant by "incremental indexing", you only add new/changed > data to your index. > > Hope that helps > Erick > > On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:09 AM, <victo...@usal.es> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> First ask your pardon for my poor English. >> >> I am making an application in Java using Lucene 3.6 for indexing the hard >> drive, and I've read that you can index incrementally, but not like >> putting that option, because every time I indexed the hard disk overwrite >> the existing index and makes me again, with the consequent expenditure of >> time in making such indexing. >> >> If someone could help me. >> >> Regards and thanks in advance >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
