diff --git a/htroot/IndexTransfer_p.html b/htroot/IndexTransfer_p.html
index 439aed536..548347eb7 100644
--- a/htroot/IndexTransfer_p.html
+++ b/htroot/IndexTransfer_p.html
@@ -16,15 +16,22 @@
 <tr class="TableHeader" valign="bottom">
 <td class="small" >Status</td>
 <td class="small" >Transfered Words</td>
-<td class="small" >Words Range</td>
+<td class="small" >Chunk Size: Words Range</td>
+<td class="small" >Delete Index</td>
 <td class="small" >Remote Peer</td>
 <td class="small" >Start/Stop Transfer</td>
 </tr>
 #(running)#
 <tr valign="top" class="TableCellLight">
-<td class="small">Not running</td>
+<td class="small">#[status]#</td>
 <td class="small" align="center">-</td>
 <td class="small" align="center">-</td>
+<td class="small">
+	<select name="deleteIndex">
+		<option value="1">true</option>
+		<option value="0">false</option>
+	</select>
+</td>
 <td class="small">
 	<select name="hostHash">
 	#{hosts}#
@@ -42,6 +49,7 @@
       <td class="small"><font color="#(stopped)#green::red#(/stopped)#">#[status]#</font></td>
       <td class="small" align="right">#[twcount]# (#[twpercent]#%) </td>
       <td class="small" align="rigth">#[twchunk]# words: <tt>#[twrange]#</tt></td>
+      <td class="small">#(deleteIndex)#false::true#(/deleteIndex)#</td>
       <td class="small">#[peerName]#</td>
       <td class="small">#(stopped)#<input type="submit" name="stopIndexTransfer" value="Stop Index Transfer">::
                      <input type="submit" name="newIndexTransfer" value="Start New Index Transfer">#(/stopped)#</td>
diff --git a/htroot/IndexTransfer_p.java b/htroot/IndexTransfer_p.java
index 7b9f261f5..34a160bf4 100644
--- a/htroot/IndexTransfer_p.java
+++ b/htroot/IndexTransfer_p.java
@@ -67,18 +67,25 @@ public class IndexTransfer_p {
         
         if (post != null) {            
             if (post.containsKey("startIndexTransfer")) {                
-                yacySeed seed = yacyCore.seedDB.getConnected(post.get("hostHash", ""));
-                if (seed == null) return prop;
-                
-                switchboard.indexDistribution.startTransferWholeIndex(seed,true);                
+                yacySeed seed = yacyCore.seedDB.getConnected(post.get("hostHash", ""));                
+                if (seed == null) {
+                    prop.put("running_status","Disconnected peer");
+                } else {                    
+                    boolean deleteIndex = ((String)post.get("deleteIndex", "0")).equals("1");                    
+                    switchboard.indexDistribution.startTransferWholeIndex(seed,deleteIndex);
+                    prop.put("LOCATION","");
+                    return prop;
+                }
             } else if (post.containsKey("stopIndexTransfer")) {
                 switchboard.indexDistribution.stopTransferWholeIndex(true);
+                prop.put("LOCATION","");
+                return prop;
                 
             } else if (post.containsKey("newIndexTransfer")) {
                 switchboard.indexDistribution.abortTransferWholeIndex(true);
+                prop.put("LOCATION","");
+                return prop;
             }
-            prop.put("LOCATION","");
-            return prop;
         }
         
         
@@ -95,8 +102,11 @@ public class IndexTransfer_p {
             prop.put("running_twpercent",Float.toString(transfThread.getTransferedIndexPercent()));
             prop.put("running_twrange", transfThread.getRange());
             prop.put("running_twchunk", Integer.toString(transfThread.getChunkSize()));
+            prop.put("running_deleteIndex", transfThread.deleteIndex()?1:0);
             prop.put("running_peerName",transfThread.getSeed().getName());
             prop.put("running_stopped",(transfThread.isFinished()) || (!transfThread.isAlive())?1:0);
+        } else {
+            if (!prop.containsKey("running_status")) prop.put("running_status","Not running");
         }
         
         
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaWordIndexDistribution.java b/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaWordIndexDistribution.java
index add29070b..d247076ee 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaWordIndexDistribution.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaWordIndexDistribution.java
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ public class plasmaWordIndexDistribution {
         private boolean delete = false;
         private boolean finished = false;
         private int transferedIndexCount = 0;
-        private String status = "running";
+        private String status = "Running";
         private String oldStartingPointHash = "------------", startPointHash = "------------";
         private int wordsDBSize = 0;
         private int chunkSize = 500;
@@ -484,11 +484,15 @@ public class plasmaWordIndexDistribution {
             this.finished = true;
             this.join();
         }
-        
+                
         public boolean isFinished() {
             return this.finished;
         }
         
+        public boolean deleteIndex() {
+            return this.delete;
+        }
+        
         public int getChunkSize() {
             return this.chunkSize;
         }
@@ -526,19 +530,21 @@ public class plasmaWordIndexDistribution {
                  * - detected a server shutdown or user interruption
                  * - detected a failure
                  */
-                long start, retryCount = 0;
+                long start, retryCount = 0, iteration = 0;
                 while (!finished && !Thread.currentThread().isInterrupted()) {
+                    iteration++;
                     int idxCount = 0;
                     start = System.currentTimeMillis();
                     
                     // selecting 500 words to transfer
+                    this.status = "Running: Selection of chunk " + iteration;
                     Object[] selectResult = selectTransferIndexes(startPointHash, chunkSize);
                     plasmaWordIndexEntity[] indexEntities = (plasmaWordIndexEntity[]) selectResult[0];                    
                     
                     HashMap urlCache = (HashMap) selectResult[1]; // String (url-hash) / plasmaCrawlLURL.Entry 
                     if ((indexEntities == null) || (indexEntities.length == 0)) {
                         plasmaWordIndexDistribution.this.log.logFine("No index available for index transfer, hash start-point " + startPointHash);
-                        this.status = "finished.";
+                        this.status = "Finished. " + iteration + " chunks transfered.";
                         return;
                     }
                     // count the indexes again, can be smaller as expected                    
@@ -563,6 +569,7 @@ public class plasmaWordIndexDistribution {
                         if (isAborted()) return;
                         
                         // transfering seleted words to remote peer
+                        this.status = "Running: Transfer of chunk " + iteration;
                         String error = yacyClient.transferIndex(seed, indexEntities, urlCache);
                         if (error == null) {
                             // words successfully transfered
@@ -625,6 +632,7 @@ public class plasmaWordIndexDistribution {
                     
                     // deleting transfered words from index
                     if (delete) {
+                        this.status = "Running: Deletion of chunk " + iteration;
                         try {
                             if (deleteTransferIndexes(indexEntities)) {
                                 plasmaWordIndexDistribution.this.log.logFine("Deleted all " + indexEntities.length + " transferred whole-word indexes locally");