Hi Andreas, Can you show me some more code? How are you creating the index? Perhaps you are setting :create => true in which case it will overwrite the old index. Dave On 12/19/05, Andreas S. <f / andreas-s.net> wrote: > Hi, > > what do I have to do to be able to write a ferret index from multiple > processes at the same time? > > I was indexing a lot of documents with a script when another process > made a change to the index; suddenly all of the imported data was gone > from the index, and the import script quit with the exception > "Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - ./ferret_index/_1ah.fnm". > > auto_flush => true didn't help. Is there something else? > > Andreas > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > >