I create an IndexWriter, index and then close the IndexWriter. Then if I delte the index files it does this great.
try { FSDirectory dir = FSDirectory.getDirectory(directory); for(String fileName : dir.list()) { dir.deleteFile(fileName); } } catch(IOException ioe) { ioe.printStackTrace(); } But if in between creating index and deleting, I create a multi-searcher, and close, I get IOExceptions when trying to delete the index. private MultiSearcher initSearcher(Collection<Directory> indexes) throws CorruptIndexException, IOException { IndexSearcher[] searchers = new IndexSearcher[indexes.size()]; Iterator<Directory> it = indexes.iterator(); int i = 0; while (it.hasNext()) { searchers[i] = new IndexSearcher(it.next()); i++; } return new MultiSearcher(searchers); } private void close() { try { searcher.close(); if(searcher instanceof MultiSearcher) { MultiSearcher ms = (MultiSearcher)searcher; ms.close(); for(Searchable s :Arrays.asList(ms.getSearchables())) { s.close(); } } } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } -- View this message in context: http://n3.nabble.com/Errors-deleting-index-tp702962p702962.html Sent from the Lucene - Java Developer mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org