Uli the chemist - 2005-04-03

Hi,

I see the following errors in the console when running docSearcher:
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Error parsing date! 4/3/2005
Error parsing date! 4/3/2005
Error obtaining days old for  4/3/2005
java.lang.NullPointerException
Index pdf-files : 0 days old : 4/3/2005
1 Total Indexes
Index folder: I:\meta\programme\java_docsearch\.docSearcher\indexes exists
Using Language: de_DE
To create a translation for your language; translate the file DocSearcher.proper
ties and save it as DocSearcher_de_DE.properties
Error parsing date! 4/3/2005
Error parsing date! 4/3/2005
Error obtaining days old for  4/3/2005
java.lang.NullPointerException
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I don't know what kind of problems this will cause;
it seems to work anyway. This is a brand new JRE 1.5.0_02 running under Win98SE. Its a german Windows version, but 4/3 as a date is not
invalid (although this is 3rd of April here, not 4th of march) so this can not be the cause.

Speaking of Win98: I chose DocSearcher because I use Win and Linux on my Desktop Machine and
also I have multiple external hard drives (USB).
So I thought it would be great to have a cross-platform standalone search/index on each USB Disk. With DocSearcher I came closer to this goal than with any other other - at least I can run it both with Linux and Win and I can keep the index date on each disk. Great! However, since Paths are stored absolute , i always have to change settings each time I change the OS ... any Idea how that can be circumvented?  If there were a command line to load/save preferences from different files that could help a lot ...

Best regards,
Ulrich