# Create/Edit Index

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To add an existing index click the Add Index button in the Index Manager and select Create a new index option. Index Name and Store

Index name | The main identifier for the index.
Store Index | The folder where the index data is stored.

Index Content

These settings decide what is included in the index:

Documents/PDF/Text Files | Includes common document types, such as Word, Excel, PDF etc. and regular text files.
Outlook PST/MSG Files | Includes emails from within PST, OST and MSG files. To index the attachments of the emails check the Email attachments option.
Specific files | Other file types that might not be included in the options above. For example to include two extra file types ALT and ALT2 you would add: *.alt;*.alt2 Or, if you wanted to ONLY index DOC files you would uncheck the Documents/PDF/Text Files option and add:

*.doc

Include all other files using name only | Includes the file names of all the other files which were found during indexing but didn't have their content indexed. This allows for files to be found by name without requiring their content to also be indexed.

Index Locations

These settings decide which locations will be scanned for valid index content:

Standard document locations | Includes the standard document locations such as Desktop, My Documents, My Music, My Pictures etc.
Specific locations | Other locations to scan for indexable content. To include multiple locations separate them with a semi-colon, e.g. M:\Documents;S:\Archive

Advanced Settings

Additional settings are available via the 'Advanced...' link.

Enable case sensitive searching | By default case-sensitive searching is switched off, since case sensitive searching requires the index to include the case-sensitive variants of the same word and therefore increases the size of the index. You can enable case-sensitive searching by checking this option.

Detect binary content | Switching this option on prevents binary (ie non-text data) from being indexed. (Recommended)
Allow partial commits | If this option is enabled the indexer will periodically commit changes to the index during the update/recreate process. This means that if the indexer is prevented from finishing (power-cut, crash etc.) the index will contain recent changes.

Note: This option does not have any impact on Index Monitoring, which always periodically commits changes.

Index compressed archives | To index compressed archives, such as ZIP, RAR etc. check the appropriate extensions.

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