The following applies to Unix-like systems
Initially creating the configuration and index:
mkdir /path/to/my/new/config
Configuring the new index can be done from the
recoll GUI, launched from the
command line to pass the -c
option
(you could create a desktop file to do it for you), and then using the
GUI index configuration tool
to set up the index.
recoll -c /path/to/my/new/config
Alternatively, you can just start a text editor on the main configuration file:
someEditor
/path/to/my/new/config
/recoll.conf
Creating and updating the index can be done from the command line:
recollindex -c /path/to/my/new/config
or from the File menu of a GUI launched with the same option (recoll, see above).
The same GUI would also let you set up batch indexing for
the new index. Real time indexing can only be set up from the GUI
for the default index (the menu entry will be inactive if the GUI
was started with a non-default -c
option).
The new index can be queried alone with:
recoll -c /path/to/my/new/config
Or, in parallel with the default index, by starting
recoll without a -c
option, and using
the External Indexes tab in the preferences dialog, which can be
reached either trough:
→ → or
→ .
See the GUI external indexes
section for more details.