Don't skip files if Index was deleted

[ThomasLambertES]

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This issue is for a: (mark with an x)

- [ ] bug report -> please search issues before submitting
- [ x] feature request
- [ ] documentation issue or request
- [ ] regression (a behavior that used to work and stopped in a new release)

Minimal steps to reproduce

Delete existing index, then rerun azd up. It will recreate index but leave empty. I deleted manually the .md5, but maybe a check would be, if index not exist, rerun all files

Any log messages given by the failure

Skipping ./data/,,,,,,,,,,.pdf, no changes detected.

Expected/desired behavior

No skipping files if the index was deleted (in my clease to cleanup the data)

OS and Version?

Windows 7, 8 or 10. Linux (which distribution). macOS (Yosemite? El Capitan? Sierra?)

azd version?

run azd version and copy paste here.

Versions

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[tonybaloney]

thanks for the suggestion. We should implement this once #862 is merged because that PR has rewritten the prepdocs script.

Suggested approach

1. Create index if exists returns a signal if the index has been recreated
2. The signal is used as a flag to upload (e.g. force reupload)

[pamelafox]

Related issues:

• Running --removeall leaves the md5 files (but probably shouldnt)
• Switching azd environments leaves the md5 files (I have no solution for that right now)

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[pamelafox]

I am removing the "stale" label since this is still an issue with the current implementation. We hope to move prepdocs to a custom function on AI Search soon, away from the md5 files approach.