Yep, sure hate it when that happens, which doesn't prevent it happening to me more often than I'd like :).
Glad you figured it out. Erick On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Paul J. Lucas <p...@lucasmail.org> wrote: > On Aug 22, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Erick Erickson wrote: > > > Did you issue a commit (or close) the IndexWriter after you deleted the > > documents? > > I originally wrote: > > > I create/close a new IndexWriter for the delete. > > So the answer is "yes." > > > ... are you sure your cases match when you submit your term queries? > > Yes. > > > An interesting test would be to write out the file names you create your > > terms from, and see what happens if you search on those fields etc.... > > Never mind. I figured it out. (Don't you hate it when you can't figure > something out, you write-up a detailed question, post it, then go off an > figure it out afterwards?) > > The problem was the directory was being stored in the index like: > > /path/to/file/ > > (with the trailing slash). The delete query, however, didn't have the > trailing slash since File.getAbsolutePath() doesn't return trailing file > separator characters. D'oh! > > - Paul > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > >
