Make Click on the “Make” button to create the index once your entries in Name, Folder, Folder(s), and File(s) are complete. Depending upon how many files are to be indexed, their sizes and contents, and of course, the speed of the machine, the indexing may take from a second to quite a few minutes.
Name In this edit box, enter a name for the index to be made. The several files necessary to storing the index on disk will have the name you enter here; so, the name may not contain characters illegal to file names, specifically, < > : ? * / \ .
Folder Enter in this edit box the name of the folder where you want the index itself to be placed. This folder can be an out-of-the-way subfolder because you will not have anything to do with the index files directly; you will refer to your index by the Name you give it, not by the files it creates for storage. All your indexes may be placed in the same folder.
Folder(s) Enter the names of the folders to include when the index is made. See Folder(s).
File(s) Enter file names and file masks, e.g., *.doc, for the files to be indexed. See File(s).
Options for Make
Subfolders too Checkmark this to include the subfolders of the Folder(s) indexed. This is the same option that appears on the menu and the toolbar for Search Options.
Separate hyphenated words If you want to index hyphenated words individually by separating them and discarding the hyphen, click a checkmark in this checkbox.
Index one-letter words If this is checked, indexing will include 1-letter words, that is, any letter that stands by itself within word boundaries. In text files, 1-letter words such as “I” and “a” are usually omitted as “junk” or “noise” words. Generally, there are not many 1-letter words in a text file. In binary files, however, there may be very many occurrences of single letters within word boundaries. Usually these single letters are of no value in the index. DEFAULT: Not checked.
Omit numbers Check this to omit numbers from the indexing. When binary files are indexed, many useless numbers may be included. If you are looking for only the words in binary files, not numbers, check this. In text files—the usual targets of indexing—numbers usually have meaning.
Max # words in memory Leave this setting at 200000 (two hundred thousand) unless you operate the program on a machine with limited free RAM and you experience a slowing down of the Index-Make operation. Ordinarily, a high number here results in fast indexing. However, if Windows has limited RAM, it creates “virtual memory” on your hard drive, which is slow. Hence, it speeds up indexing in limited RAM to decrease this setting and minimize Windows’ need for “virtual memory” on disk.
Do not pack files Checkmark this to skip packing (compressing) the index’s files after the index is made. Packing the files results in smaller files. It takes insignificant time for most indexes, but may take minutes for extremely large indexes.
Other options that affect Make
Options set in the following sections affect, or have pertinence to, the making or use of an index:
Options – Find In particular, confer “Reading files,” which controls how files are read during the making of an index.
Options - Exclude The settings “File Filters” and “Always Skip Extensions” are used during the making of an index.
List boxes
Index This list box contains the names of indexes that you have created here in Keepers | Make. Click on an index name to choose it for re-making. Double-click on an index name to show its information in the “Contents” list box.
Contents Information about the index selected in the “Index” list box is displayed in the “Contents” list box. See the description of the “Contents” list box in Indexes for details.