# Recoll user manual
Introduction

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### Recovery

In the rare case where the index becomes corrupted (which can signal itself by weird search results or crashes), the index files need to be erased before restarting a clean indexing pass. Just delete the `xapiandb` directory (see next section), or, alternatively, start the next recollindex with the `-z` option, which will reset the database before indexing.

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