Indexing my personal information
The indexing wizard can create indexes of your personal data in a few
clicks. It is the easiest way to get started with Perceptive Search. You can use the wizard to
create indexes of your:
- My Documents
- Emails
- Internet History
To create your personal information indexes:
- Start Perceptive Enterprise Search - Local Administration Console
- Choose File > New Index from the menu. The New Index Wizard will
be shown.
- Click on My Documents and Emails
- You will be presented with the following options:
- My Documents
When checked, builds an index of your My Documents folder, as stored by
Windows. You can add other folders by clicking the Add Files to Index
button. - My Emails
Perceptive Search will list the detected email clients you have installed. Check the
clients that you wish to include in your "My Emails" index. Check "Index
email attachments as well as contents" to have Perceptive Search and email attachments to
the index. - My Internet History
Perceptive Search will list the detected web browsers. Check the web browsers that you
wish to include in your "My Internet History" index.
Click Next.
- You can optional configure the index for scheduled updates by selecting
Daily, Weekly, or Monthly. See Scheduling for details. If you
do not want scheduled updates, select Don't update index automatically.
- The last page of the wizard allows you to review your settings. If you check the
Build index now checkbox, Perceptive Search will read your documents and add them to
the index, otherwise you will need to perform a manual update.
Perceptive Search will create a separate index for My Documents, My Emails and
My Internet History. The indexes are automatically stored for you in:
[User Application Data]\Perceptive Enterprise Search\Indexes\
On Windows XP this is normally in C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Perceptive Enterprise Search\Indexes\
On Windows Vista it is normally in C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Perceptive Enterprise Search\Indexes\