1. A method for associating file path indexes with items and folders in a content repository, wherein the items and the folders are each associated with one of a plurality of types, the method comprising: for each respective type of a plurality of types associated with one or more indexable instances that are not associated with a file path index, in turn starting with folder types prior to item types in a round robin sequence: querying, by the at least one processor, the content repository for instances of the respective type out of the plurality of types that are each not associated with the file path index and that are each filed in a folder that is associated with the file path index, marking, by the at least one processor, the respective type when the querying returns zero instances of the respective type and when no other type is marked, and in response to the querying returning, by the at least one processor, one or more instances of the respective type, associating, by the at least one processor, each of the one or more instances of the respective type with the file path index.