Some Concepts That Underpin GIS - Introducing Geographic Information Systems with ArcGIS - page 67

now display the word Indexing, followed by repeating dots. ArcGIS is doing the “alphabetizing” I discussed
earlier 25 , which may take up to a minute. While you are waiting, note the Indexing Options panel.
Accept the defaults for now, but note that you could change the time indexing is done—if, for example,
you typically are working at midnight, you might want to change the time automatic indexing is done
to 3:00 A.M.
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When the indexing process is finished, Indexing Status will say Active. Click Apply and, if necessary, wait a
few more seconds until Active reappears. Click OK.
Once the indexing process is done, ArcGIS will be able to efficiently look in the folders in
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for data. You should be aware: it won't look for data anywhere else!
25 If you have questions about what indexing means refer back to the section on “Searching (and Indexing) in General”
in the Overview of this chapter.