Hi,

this is a bit of a general maintenance/newbie question I guess but I seem to be spending hours doing rebuilds and reindexes.

Is there a golden rule to follow for doing this as not really knowing any different I do both every time I make a change as I can never be sure which infuences which.

i.e do you only need to rebuild whenever you change the content of the database and reindex whenever you change the settings.

I think I am rebuilding too much but I am unclear if I change search settings if I need to rebuild the structure to take changes into account... or is rebuilding the structure of the data the reindexing bit.

My problems are that my searches do not do what I expect them to do and the results are quite poor even though the data exists so I am continually doing both just to be on the safe side - cutting one out of the equation would save me a few hours a day waiting for it to rebuild or reindex.

Cheers
KevM