Recognizing an Existing Index

Menu option:  Index > Index Manager > Recognize Index

Recognize Index enables you to add an existing index to your index library, making it accessible for searching or indexing.  This can be useful on a network if you want to be able to search an index that another user created on the network. 

Use the Recognize Index dialog box to locate one of the files in the index you want to recognize and choose OK.  (dtSearch index files have names like INDEX_R.IX and INDEX_V.IX.  They always begin with INDEX and end with .IX) dtSearch will look in the directory for the index, extract the information it needs to recognize the index, and add the index to the list of indexes in the current index library.