There is no "update in place" functionality in Lucene. You can use IndexModifier which (under the covers) does a delete/add.
How dynamic is "pretty dynamic"? updating one doc/hour? Updating 1,000 docs a second? Best Erick On 10/16/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > HI Folks, > > How to address the a change in the name of the file (or) the > location of a file that was indexed.?. Is re-indexing this file the > only way out ?. > Since most of our files, we are planning on indexing are pretty > dynamic. > > Thank you > _Durga > > > >