# Command line utility

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Indexes can be created, updated, or recreated via the console application: flpidx.exe -name [index name] | -path [path to index store] | -recreate | -update | -create | -cf | -d [locations] | -ds | -f [file types] | -fd | -fm | -fma | -fnc | -remove | -delete | -verbose | -help

| -name [index name] | Name of the index to perform the operation on.
| -path [index path] | Path to the location of the index store.
| -addref | Add a reference to an existing index to the list of indexes
| -list | Print the list of indexes
| -recreate | Re-create the index
| -update | Update the index with changes found
| -create | Create a new index

-ab | Allow binary files (ie do not detect binary)
-apcn | Do not allow partial commits
-ax | Compressed file archives (e.g. zip;tar;7z)
-cf | Enable case-sensitive searching
-d [locations] | Semi-colon list of locations to index
-dcn | Do not include subfolders in index
-ds | Index standard document locations
-f [file types] | File types for indexing (e.g. *.doc;*.docx;*.txt)
-fd | Index standard document files types
-fm | Index Outlook PST/MSG files
-fma | Index email attachments
-fnc | Include file names for non-content file types
-i | Index the files now

| -remove | Remove the index reference from the configured index list (use with -delete to delete the index files)
| -scheduler | Start the scheduler process.
| -help | Show help information
| -verbose | Show detailed information of files being indexed

Examples:

To update the 'Emails' index the command line would be:

flpidx.exe -name "Emails" -update

To recreate the index stored in 'C:\Indexes\Shared' the command line would be:

flpidx.exe -path "C:\Indexes\Shared" -recreate

To create a new index stored in 'C:\Indexes\New' the command line would be:

flpidx.exe -create -name "New Index" -path "C:\Indexes\New" -ds -fd -i

Note:

Since flpidx.exe is a console application when you run it you might get an annoying console window popping up. To prevent the console window from displaying you can run flpidx.exe via the IndexManager.exe application using the -exec flag, e.g.

IndexManager.exe -exec -name "Emails" -update

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