8.5 FP1 Client. Full Text indexing is Broken  

Just downloaded the 8.5FP1 server and client.  Server installed, no problems; seems to be OK.

The client was a different matter.  First the install wouldn't run - got an error that I forgot to make a note of..  So I restarted my machine (Windows XP SP3), and then the install ran fine, but then the fun and games really started.

When I tried to start the client, the start showed the splash screen, then error: ndgts.dll can't be found (I don't have the exact wording).  It's not there in the client, but it was in the server.  So thought about copying it from server to client.  Then I decided to check about a bit more first:
- Notes.INI for client and server; anything untoward?
- Windows start icon properties - anything strange here?.   I also tried starting notes.exe and nlnotes.exe from \lotus\notes, but that didn't work either
- checked registry entries in hkey_local-machine/software/lotus/notes/8.0 for paths, datapaths and so on. Noted that the version was 080500.  

All looked good, so I copied ndgts.dll from client to server.   Then the same error with nlsccstr.dll.  So I copied that from server to client also.  

But this didn't look at all right.   I Googled ndgts.dll, and found this: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd8forum.nsf/0/3c7f8745b97fc121852575220040f7dd?OpenDocument, which is a similar sounding issue from Notes 8.0.2.

But after copying those two files, the client now starts OK.  

But Full-text indexing is borked.  All my FTI'd databases now say that they aren't index, but index files exist.   If I try to delete the index, I get an error.   The fisr time, the message said: c:\documents and settings\N0001\application data\mozilla\registry.dat does not exist.  What?

I tried to create a new FT index, and got this error in the Notes status bar, and in my Notes log:

27/07/2009 11:58:01   Error full text indexing help\help85_designer.nsf: File does not exist

Which isn't true....

Trying to delete what appears to be a part-formed index then gives another error:
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Which is true, that file doesn't exist, but then why would it be relevant?

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Mick Moignard July 27th, 2009 05:42:11 AM