[tracker] website: Document .nomedia trick
- From: Sam Thursfield <sthursfield src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [tracker] website: Document .nomedia trick
- Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 21:25:07 +0000 (UTC)
commit a0ba5a635a33b07d090d7e76b75f2c585bc2032e
Author: Sam Thursfield <sam afuera me uk>
Date: Thu Apr 30 23:24:06 2020 +0200
website: Document .nomedia trick
docs/website/faq.md | 7 +++++++
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diff --git a/docs/website/faq.md b/docs/website/faq.md
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The relevant schemas are `org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files` and
`org.freedesktop.Tracker.Extract`.
+To tell Tracker's indexer to ignore a directory and all its contents, you can
+create an empty file named `.nomedia` inside the directory. This trick also
+works [on Android](https://www.lifewire.com/nomedia-file-4172882) devices.
+Files named `.trackerignore`, `.git` and `.hg` have the same effect. You can
+configure this behaviour with the org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files
+`ignored-directories-with-content` GSettings key.
+
## Why does Tracker consume resources on my PC?
When you add or edit files, Tracker will update its index. This should be very
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