Using Acrobat DC. Have several registrations and tried doing this on several machines and the problem is the same so I think it is a bug in Acrobat software; not just something connected with one computer.
If I try and create and build an index it all starts off in the normal way but then it just keeps looping over the same directory that it's extracting PDF’s from. The file count just goes on and on until it creates 100 of thousands of them and if you leave it long enough into the millions. The index is never built because it keeps indexing the same files over and over again. I have tried building index’s over different directory's thinking maybe there's some corruption's within a specific directory being indexed but it does it over others as well.
Having said that it's always the same folders and files within the chosen directory's that causes it to loop. So, for example you pick one directory and do a build then it jams up within a particular area in that directory. You stop that failed build and pick another directory and do another build and it will jam up again in another area in your new directory. Different files causing the looping but it's always gets stuck and starts looping in the same areas in each directory's. It's almost as if there's some kind file or code that is spread over the directory's that's causing Acrobat indexing to fail.
Any thoughts - I'm a big fan of indexing it's very useful but this problem means it is simply unusable as I can longer build or update an index.
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