How to recover from Solr deleted index files?

Question

When I delete solr\'s index files on disk, (found in /solr/data/index and solr/data/spellchecker), solr throws an exception whenever I try to make

Answer 1

Solr will throw that exception at startup if the index directory exists but is empty. However if you delete the directory, Solr will create it and the empty segments files at startup.