Re: Deleting indexed items
- From: "Forums @ Existanze" <forums existanze com>
- To: dashboard-hackers gnome org
- Subject: Re: Deleting indexed items
- Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:56:38 +0300
On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 15:26 +0200, Pierre Östlund wrote:
> On 6/30/07, Paul Wellner Bou <paul purecodes org> wrote:
>
> I just wanted to know if there is any way to delete items that
> are
> indexed by beagle. For example mails that are deleted yet or
> websites I
> visited with Firefox or Opera and I don't want them to be in
> the index.
>
> The easiest way to remove items is to just delete the index they
> belong to. If you for instance want to remove everything extracted
> from Opera, just remove the directory containing the Opera index. All
> indexes are stored in ~/.beagle/Indexes, just remove the ones you
> don't want. A small note: shut down beagle before you delete
> anything!
>
> If you completely want to disable a backend, you can do so from the
> command line when launching the daemon. List all backends with
> "beagled --list-backends", write down the ones you don't want and add
> one "--backend -<name of backend>" per backend you want to disable
> when you launch the daemon. So, if you would like to disable Opera,
> launch the beagle daemon like this:
>
> beagled --backend -Opera
>
>
> I have no problem with files as beagle seems to recognize it
> almost
> immediately if I delete a file. I don't know how beagle
> handles the
> Feed-Entries. How long are they stored in the index? As long
> as my
> newsreader keeps them?
>
> Don't really know how long beagle keeps feed entries in its indexes.
> The implementation of a backend decides these things and I haven't
> touched that code, but I would guess that beagle never drops them as
> this is much easier to accomplish (since one don't have to write the
> "up to date" and removal code).
>
> If you want to go into the index and delete items manually, I really
> recommend luke (available here: http://www.getopt.org/luke/). Use it
> on your own risk.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Pierre Östlund
>
>
>
Hello Pierre I looked under .beagle/Indexes and firefox wasn't listed,
some other programs that are KDE based on my Ubuntu Gnome desktop do
appear ? any ideas?
Best Regards,
Fotis
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