Does anyone know how to make susehelp build-search-index keep the search- indexes it labels MISSING after selecting and building those _between_ kde sessions? I couldn't find any solutions in susehelp, this lists archives or /usr/share/doc/packages/. + one thread in the 5600+ most recent posts to this list, "KDE Help Center (susehelp index)", looked at a related problem briefly but never came to a solution. (The list archives are too difficult to search online.) + /usr/share/doc/packages/susehelp/README only offers brief info on khelpcenter, and how to set-up web-server version or documentation center + /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/khelpcenterrc contains the following, but i got lost on my first trip into the meta subdirectory (will try again): [General] MetaInfoDirs=/usr/share/susehelp/meta [Search] IndexDirectory=/var/cache/susehelp/ [Templates] MainTemplate=/usr/share/susehelp/khelpcenter.template + /var/cache/susehelp/ contains various .conf, .db, .index, .exists and .docdb files from my latest rebuild, but only the ones with readable names do not get re-labelled as "MISSING" after a KDE session is ended/re-started -- ie suse admin and users guides, release notes, kde_application_manuals. The rest, those returned to MISSING after a KDE session restart, have cryptic names like those below: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 734208 Jul 22 09:21 suselinux-userguideen.words.db -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 90112 Jul 22 09:21 suselinux-userguideen.excerpts -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Jul 22 09:21 suselinux-userguideen.docs.index -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22 Jul 22 09:21 suselinux-userguideen.exists -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 90112 Jul 22 09:21 suselinux-userguideen.docdb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16384 Jul 22 09:21 S782ocCJop01Hov.words.db_weakcmpr -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1084 Jul 22 09:21 S782ocCJop01Hov.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1985536 Jul 22 09:21 S782ocCJop01Hov.words.db -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16 Jul 22 09:21 S782ocCJop01Hov.exists -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 180224 Jul 22 09:21 S782ocCJop01Hov.excerpts -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49152 Jul 22 09:21 S782ocCJop01Hov.docs.index -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 180224 Jul 22 09:21 S782ocCJop01Hov.docdb Thanks, Andi -- AD Marshall eM: admarshall@gmail.com Web: http://h0lug.sourceforge.net Zone: ICT (IndoChina Time; GMT/UTC+7)