Hi Downey,
It would appear that no folder with my case name is being created in %APPDATA% hence no solrcore.properties file. I did do a search for the core.properties and could not locate it in C.
However in my second partition, where my case is located there is a SolrCore.properties file inside the solr folder. But it does not have similar contents as displayed in this case Keyword Ingest module failure, therefore i doubt that what I am looking at is what you are referring to. I have uploaded a snippet of the content of that file.
I even tried uninstalling and deleting all leftover autopsy folders in program files and %APPDATA% but after reinstallation and trying to simply open a new case, i run into the same error.
Thanks for your help.