The recrawl patch in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-601 got committed today. So if you check out the latest trunk, you can recrawl without deleting the crawl directory.
However, if you are using an older version, you may use the script at: http://wiki.apache.org/nutch/Crawl Regards, Susam Pal On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Bradford Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > A coworker and I are experimenting with Nutch in anticipation of a > pretty large rollout at our company. However, we seem to be stuck on > something -- after the crawler is finished, we can't manually re-crawl > into the same directory/index! It says "Directory already exists" when > we try to initiate a new crawl. Any ideas? > > Cheers, > Bradford >