On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So is there a good way, without optimizing, to purge any segments not > referenced in the segments file? Actually I doubt that optimizing would > even do it if I _could_, any phantom segments aren't visible from the > segments file anyway... >
I dont know why you have these files (windows? deletion policy?) but maybe you are interested in this: http://lucene.apache.org/core/4_4_0/core/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.html#deleteUnusedFiles%28%29