Robert,

I am sorry you found this troubles during upgrade; however, Jingwei is right in his comments.

We would like to get more details of your problems as your machine should not hang due population, even though if we use as much CPU as we can (possible bug?). As Jingwei mentioned, we use as much CPU as we can to accomplish order of magnitude better population performance in FTS 2005 than in FTS 2000. Also, we do not have any record of such error message about "Lost" FTCatalogs, try to give us more details please.

So far, our customers are extremely happy with FTS 2005 and glad that our population is that fast now. Note also that part of your pain was caused by the fact we now allow a full integration between the FTCatalogs and the DB (backup/restore, etc..), which is a huge enhancement for our customers (eventhough it caused so much pain in your case).

Be sure we are working hard here to find out what went wrong with your experience and in improving some aspects you hitted, so customers with non critical FTS dependencies can upgrade easier even when having FTCatalogs existing in their system.

Please feel free to contact me or Jingwei for more personalized and direct assesment on your FTS problems.

Thanks.