Hi, I have recently started getting file already exists errors during incremental indexing or rebuilding of the index. The files that are causing the errors are named com1.fnm .. com7.fnm (suspiciously similar to the names of the ports!). These files do not exist in the specified directory, and the errors still occur after deleting the search index and restarting the server machine.
I am running lucene under Windows 2000. Apparently it is a Windows feature that these file names are "reserved" -- I have tried manually creating a file named com1.xxx and it always tells me that the file already exists, no matter where I try to create it. Has anyone run into this problem, and is there a known workaround? I have not tried this under newer versions of Lucene. Could it have been fixed already? -- Ernie Here's a typical stack trace. java.io.IOException: \search1\com6.fnm already exists at com.lucene.store.FSOutputStream.<init>(FSDirectory.java:191) at com.lucene.store.FSDirectory.createFile(FSDirectory.java:137) at com.lucene.index.FieldInfos.write(FieldInfos.java:108) at com.lucene.index.SegmentMerger.mergeFields(SegmentMerger.java:71) at com.lucene.index.SegmentMerger.merge(SegmentMerger.java:53) at com.lucene.index.IndexWriter.mergeSegments(IndexWriter.java:267) at com.lucene.index.IndexWriter.mergeSegments(IndexWriter.java:241) at com.lucene.index.IndexWriter.maybeMergeSegments(IndexWriter.java:230) at com.lucene.index.IndexWriter.addDocument(IndexWriter.java:125) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>