Re: what files does beagle index?

["D Bera" <dbera web gmail com>]

Hi
 I remembered something which might be useful. I think external
filters require both mime-type and extension. You can try to match
extension and leave mime-type field empty (since thats what beagle
thinks the mimetype to be). Give it a try.

- dBera

> $ beagle-extract-content .icq.old/history/6000006.db
> Filename: file:///home/brian/.icq.old/history/6000006.db
> Debug: Loaded 47 filters from /usr/lib/beagle/Filters/Filters.dll
> Debug: No filter for /home/brian/.icq.old/history/6000006.db ()
> No filter for
>
> Neither know as much as file:
>
> $ file .icq.old/history/6000006.db
> .icq.old/history/6000006.db: GNU dbm 1.x or ndbm database, little endian
>
> Unfortunately.
>
> Oh well, better than nothing.  :-)
>
> > Or even better,
> > try
> > $ beagle-extract-content /path/to/file
> > It will tell you what mimetype beagle thinks.
>
> $ beagle-extract-content .icq.old/history/6000006.db
> Filename: file:///home/brian/.icq.old/history/6000006.db
> Debug: Loaded 47 filters from /usr/lib/beagle/Filters/Filters.dll
> Debug: No filter for /home/brian/.icq.old/history/6000006.db ()
> No filter for
>
> > beagle-extract-content
> > will return you the same metadata and data that beagle extracts from a
> > file. So, if there is no filter it will say "no filter found" o/w it
> > will list the words found. After you write an external filter, you can
> > use beagle-extract-content to test the filter.
>
> Awesome!  All very helpful!
>
> > Once you are done with testing, you have to put it in the right place
> > and (I think) restart beagle.

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