Now I discovered that when I use -D to view the index there are only 14 files (under the -----> FILES <----- section). I know it has merged a lot more indexes than those 14. BTW: When I merge, I merge like: idx1 + idx2 = tmpIdx0 idx3 + tmpIdx0 = tmpIdx1 idx4 + tmpIdx1 = tmpIdx0 .. idxn + tmpIdxm = full index ("+" is "swish-e -M...") /Stefan BergstrandReceived on Wed Aug 1 16:40:04 2001