diff --git a/KeywordSearch/solr/solr/configsets/AutopsyConfig/conf/schema.xml b/KeywordSearch/solr/solr/configsets/AutopsyConfig/conf/schema.xml
index d2109cab8a..05ea8891a5 100644
--- a/KeywordSearch/solr/solr/configsets/AutopsyConfig/conf/schema.xml
+++ b/KeywordSearch/solr/solr/configsets/AutopsyConfig/conf/schema.xml
@@ -561,10 +561,13 @@
         leading wildcard queries. -->
    <!--<field name="text_rev" type="text_general_rev" indexed="true" stored="false" multiValued="true"/>-->
    
-   <!-- field with white-space tokenized words for TermsComponent regex search (useful for fast search of IP addresses, URLs, certain phone numbers)
-		also be useful for Lucene based queries containing special characters-->
-   <!-- populated via copyField -->
+   <!-- field with white-space tokenized words for TermsComponent regex search.
+        No longer being populated by Autopsy, but remains for backward compatability.
+        content_str is used instead to better deal with regex that have white space. -->
    <field name="content_ws" type="text_ws" indexed="true" stored="false" multiValued="true" /> 
+   
+   <!-- field that contains the raw string form of the chunk. Used for regular expression
+        matching.  Populated by Autopsy using lower-case text and a copyField for file name. -->
    <field name="content_str" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" />
    
    <!-- Uncommenting the following will create a "timestamp" field using
diff --git a/KeywordSearch/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/keywordsearch/Server.java b/KeywordSearch/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/keywordsearch/Server.java
index 32515af9f7..0e047456f6 100644
--- a/KeywordSearch/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/keywordsearch/Server.java
+++ b/KeywordSearch/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/keywordsearch/Server.java
@@ -101,25 +101,29 @@ public class Server {
                 return "image_id"; //NON-NLS
             }
         },
-        // This is not stored or index . it is copied to Text and Content_Ws
+        // This is not stored or indexed. it is copied to text by the schema
         CONTENT {
             @Override
             public String toString() {
                 return "content"; //NON-NLS
             }
         },
+        // String representation for regular expression searching
         CONTENT_STR {
             @Override
             public String toString() {
                 return "content_str"; //NON-NLS
             }
         },
+        // default search field.  Populated by schema
         TEXT {
             @Override
             public String toString() {
                 return "text"; //NON-NLS
             }
         },
+        // no longer populated.  Was used for regular expression searching.
+        // Should not be used. 
         CONTENT_WS {
             @Override
             public String toString() {
@@ -132,28 +136,28 @@ public class Server {
                 return "file_name"; //NON-NLS
             }
         },
-        // note that we no longer index this field
+        // note that we no longer store or index this field
         CTIME {
             @Override
             public String toString() {
                 return "ctime"; //NON-NLS
             }
         },
-        // note that we no longer index this field
+        // note that we no longer store or index this field
         ATIME {
             @Override
             public String toString() {
                 return "atime"; //NON-NLS
             }
         },
-        // note that we no longer index this field
+        // note that we no longer store or index this field
         MTIME {
             @Override
             public String toString() {
                 return "mtime"; //NON-NLS
             }
         },
-        // note that we no longer index this field
+        // note that we no longer store or index this field
         CRTIME {
             @Override
             public String toString() {