I’m planning an upgrade to version 6.0.1CF very shortly. One of the steps of the upgrade is to delete full text indexes of databases on the server. Is there any easy way to delete full text indexes of all databases on the server without editing each database. I have alot of mail files which people have created indexes. Thanks in advance.
Subject: Upgrade to R6 - Full Text Indexes
Sure, with the server down just delete all of the directories with an extension of .ft.
Subject: Actually… it may not be that simple
If memory serves (which is getting increasingly rare) I remember one of the Iris presentations at Lotusphere 2003 stated that this wasn’t the best way to do it… Something about the FT Attribute of the db was still set in the db.
If you’re able to get access to a Domino 6 Admin client, you can go to the files tab, select multiple dbs and then delete the Full Text index from there.
I’ll see if I can’t find the presentation where that advice came from.
Subject: You’re correct, just deleting the folder will cause it to be re-created next time
The flag in the database needs to be toggled to disable ft indexing by using the tools in the Admin client.