Best Way to delete a Lucene Index

Hi, which is the best way to delete a lucene document in a large index? -- Thanks and Regards Vignesh Srinivasan 9739135640

Re: Best Way to delete a Lucene Index

Use IndexWriter.deleteDocument. Mike McCandless http://blog.mikemccandless.com On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 7:38 AM, VIGNESH S vigneshkln...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, which is the best way to delete a lucene document in a large index? -- Thanks and Regards Vignesh Srinivasan 9739135640

Re: Best Way to delete a Lucene Index

Hi Mike, Thanks for Your Reply. Actually My question is wrong. I have a large Index with a open IndexWriter.some one unknowlingly deleted some files in the index and corrupted the index. Once i get IndexCorruptedException,I will delete the entire Index Folder and close my indexwriter also and

Re: Best Way to delete a Lucene Index

You can use IndexWriter.unlock(Directory) to forcefully unlock the index; just be certain the old IndexWriter really is gone before doing that. Or, if you have an IndexWriter still open, you could try IndexWriter.rollback(), which discards all changes and closes the IndexWriter. Or perhaps