I found a spentdb / enabled option in the source code for Indexer. It is in the docker readme information, but not in the "regular" docs. Enabling it works and creates a 'spent' directory. Added for completeness.
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I found a spentdb / enabled option in the source code for Indexer. It is in the docker readme information, but not in the "regular" docs. Enabling it works and creates a 'spent' directory. Added for completeness.