OK, that makes sense. Note that Shashi's solution and mine are essentially identical. Shashi's code snippet, I think, pre-supposes that source and dest index directories are different. So copying your A/D index off some place else is functionally equivalent.
I'm not sure what would happen if you had two separately constructed indexes in the same directory and then opened that dir.... Best Erick On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Francisco Borges < francisco.bor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Erick, > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Erick Erickson<erickerick...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Sure, copy them first to some other directory <G>.... > > We might have something more helpful if you'd tell us *why* you want to > do > > this? What problem are you trying to solve? Because having two copies of > > your index in the same directory doesn't sound very save. > > I have a folder hierarchy, where each subfolder contains documents > > A/B > A/C > A/D > > and where only the contents of D have been indexed. > > Now I would like to index the whole content of A. > > I wanted to avoid re-indexing the documents in D, so I thought about > doing a merge. At the same time, I wouldn't like to lose the index I > already had. > > Thus I am trying to merge without deleting the original index. > > Kind regards, > -- > Francisco > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > >
