11.2.1 for Windows

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4. Under Include these directories, click Add to select folders that contain PDF files
to be indexed. The paths to the selected folders will be added to the box next to
the Add button. To remove a folder from the box, select the folder path and click
Remove. (Note: The subfolders nested the selected folders will also be indexed. If you
want to add files or folders from different drives, make sure you have enabled the Allow
indexing on separate drives option in File > Preferences > Index.)
5. Under Exclude these directories, click Add to select folders that contain PDF files
you do not want to be indexed. The paths to the selected folders will be added to
the box next to the Add button. To remove a folder from the box, select the folder
path and click Remove.
6. Click Build. Specify the location for the index file and click Save.
7. The Index dialog box pops up, displaying the indexing process. Click Close when
the process finishes. (Optionally, you can click Stop to cancel the indexing process,
which will create a partially finished index. You can complete it by revising the
index file later.)
8. In the specified location, Foxit PDF Editor creates an index file (an XML file), a log
file, and a folder which contains support files about the index contents. (Note: You
can unselect the Enable logging option in File > Preferences > Index if you don’t want
to create a log file.)
 Revise an existing index
1. Click File > Index > click the Full Text Index with Catalog button.
2. In the New Index Definition dialog box, click Open to select an index you want to
revise. After making changes to the index, do any of the following:
• After modifying the index title and description, click Save to save the changes
to the index file itself.
• Click Save As to save the modified index file as a new index file. You can use
it to build a new index.
• Click Build to create new index contents in the support folder to update the
index, which may increase searching time if you make a large number of
changes or repeat this action to update the index for many times.
• Click Rebuild to create a new index, overwriting the existing index file and the
index contents in the support folder.
• Click Purge to delete the index contents in the support folder without deleting
the index file. You can build a new index after making changes to the index
file.
 Schedule index updates
You can create a batch XML file (a text file that contains a list of platform-dependent
catalog index file paths and flags) with Notepad and then use a scheduling application
such as Windows Task Scheduler to schedule when and how often to automatically