From 3e11412180bf5bbf4cf7545c6c53b839438e6246 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jean-Francois Dockes Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 09:14:08 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] web --- website/pages/recoll-windows.txt | 22 ++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/website/pages/recoll-windows.txt b/website/pages/recoll-windows.txt index f3f72465..8103912d 100644 --- a/website/pages/recoll-windows.txt +++ b/website/pages/recoll-windows.txt @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Jean-Francois Dockes :date: -:recollversion: 1.23.0-2bfd80-20161115 +:recollversion: 1.23.0-20170107-78b8ad image:recoll-windows10-thumb.png[link="recoll-windows10.png"] @@ -15,8 +15,22 @@ license means that you are free to do what you want with the program (use, copy, share, etc.). If you are a developper and intend to modify and distribute the program, you probably know the GPL, else you should read it. -If you use Recoll on Windows, please consider contributing to its development: -image:/donations/btn_donate_LG.gif[link="/donations/index.html"] +NOTE: As much as I have fun writing software, producing the Windows version is +just tedious. If you use Recoll on Windows, please consider contributing to +its availability: image:/donations/btn_donate_LG.gif[link="/donations/index.html"] + +== Note for updating + +Recoll versions 1.23.0-9c5e32-20161216 and 1.23.0-2bfd80-20161115 had been +switched to using Xapian 1.4 which has a new and different index +format. Due to issues in Xapian 1.4, I have switched back to using Xapian +1.2 as of Recoll 1.23.0-20170107-78b8ad. + +This simply means that, if your index was created by one of the above +versions, it will have to be recreated from scratch after installing the +current Recoll version. I advise explicitely deleting +$HOME/AppData/Local/Recoll/xapiandb, as this will avoid leaving around 1.4 +files which would take space for nothing otherwise. == Installation @@ -39,7 +53,7 @@ image:/donations/btn_donate_LG.gif[link="/donations/index.html"] NOTE: The installer needs administrator rights in order to install to `C:\Program Files`. If you want to install on a machine where you have no administrator rights, you can use the -http://www.recoll.org/windows/recoll-archive-{recollversion}.7z[installation +http://www.recoll.org/windows/recoll-{recollversion}.7z[installation directory archive] instead and extract it anywhere, this works just the same (you will need the free http://www.7-zip.org/[7z] to extract it). If you are in this case, you can ignore the setup-related steps of the