Sorry, but I would say the same thing. I don't think you are supposed do it even programmatically. It is a lock internal to lucene.
-----Original Message----- From: Biswas, Goutam_Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 10:25 AM To: 'Lucene Users List' Subject: RE: Removing a write.lock file I'm not removing the write.lock file by hand. I'm doing it inside the code before opening the index -Goutam -----Original Message----- From: Aruna Raghavan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 8:37 PM To: 'Lucene Users List' Subject: RE: Removing a write.lock file I don't think it is a good approach to delete the write.lock file by hand. It is there for a reason. You may want to dig into some of the older dialogs/e-mails on this topic. -----Original Message----- From: Biswas, Goutam_Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 9:53 AM To: 'Lucene Users List' Subject: RE: Removing a write.lock file well suneetha, before I write to the index I check whether a write.lock file exists! If it does I delete it before opening the index. It works fine for me. -Goutam -----Original Message----- From: Aruna Raghavan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 8:22 PM To: 'Lucene Users List' Subject: RE: Removing a write.lock file Hi, The write.lock file won't be there if you close the index using a lock mechanism. I use my own RWLock to access the index dir and unlock it after I close the index. Basically, the access to the index is synchronized. I have never had any problems with this approach. Aruna. -----Original Message----- From: suneethad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 11:47 PM To: Lucene Users List Subject: Removing a write.lock file Hi, I'm currently indexing allowing multiple access , I find that a write.lock file has got created. I know this is to prevent multiple writers, but now how do I continue.??I do not want to reindex as I work on a very large database and it takes a real long time How do I remove this lock file ?? Thanx 4 ur help, Suneetha. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>