<p>I'm loading a <strong><em>SQL Server 2000</em></strong> database into my new <strong><em>SQL Server 2005</em></strong> <strong><em>instance</em></strong>. <strong><em>As expected, the full-text catalogs don't come with it.</strong> <strong>How can I rebuild them?</em></strong></p>

<p>Right-clicking my full text catalogs and hitting "<strong><em>rebuild indexes</em></strong>" just hangs for hours and hours without doing anything, so it doesn't appear to be that simple...</p>

Try it using SQL.
CREATE FULLTEXT CATALOG
ALTER FULLTEXT CATALOG
Here's an example from Microsoft.
```
```
--Change to accent insensitive
USE AdventureWorks;
GO
ALTER FULLTEXT CATALOG ftCatalog 
REBUILD WITH ACCENT_SENSITIVITY=OFF;
GO
-- Check Accentsensitivity
SELECT FULLTEXTCATALOGPROPERTY('ftCatalog', 'accentsensitivity');
GO
--Returned 0, which means the catalog is not accent sensitive.
```
```