To answer the previous Post: I was not sure what datasource="binaryFile" I took it from a PDF sample thinking that would help.
after setting datasource="null" I'm still gett the same errors... <dataConfig> <dataSource type="BinFileDataSource" user="svcSolr" password="SomePassword" /> <document> <entity name="Archive" processor="FileListEntityProcessor" baseDir="E:\ArchiveRoot" fileName=".zip$" recursive="true" rootEntity="false" dataSource="null" onError="skip"> <field column="fileSize" name="size"/> <field column="file" name="filename"/> </entity> </document> </dataConfig> the logs report this: INFO - 2013-07-01 16:45:57.317; org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.DataImporter; Starting Full Import WARN - 2013-07-01 16:45:57.333; org.apache.solr.handler.dataimport.SimplePropertiesWriter; Unable to read: dataimport.properties -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/dataconfig-to-index-ZIP-Files-tp4073965p4074399.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.