Who is this article for?

Users who want to transfer or share their index.

No elevated permissions are required.

Index Exporter is a tool used to create an index that can be imported by new users to shorten the initial time taken to index their locations.

1. Exporting index

1. Identify a user that has a suitable index for exporting locations.

2. On the user's machine run the MailManager.IndexExporter.exe that can be found in the Mail Manager installation folder:

   • C:\Program Files\Mail Manager\x64
   • %localappdata%\Mail Manager\Program Files\x64.
3. The following window will appear:

4. Select the required locations to export.
5. Select the Export To Lucene button and choose a local drive folder. A sub-folder called 2.6 will be created.
6. When the export process is complete, zip up the folder called 2.6.
7. Move the zipped file to suitable folder that can be accessed by the machine that needs to import the index.

2. Importing index

1. Exit Outlook.
2. Copy the zipped file created during the export process above to:
   • %LocalAppdata%\28hands\Mail Manager\Index
3. Delete the existing 2.6 folder.
4. Unzip the file, this will create a new 2.6 folder.
5. Restart Outlook.
6. On opening the Mail Manager Search tool the new index will be used and updated on an ongoing basis.