Re: beagle indexes and cache

[Lorenzo Bettini <bettini dsi unifi it>]

D Bera wrote:
> > > does beagle cleans up its indexes and textcaches now and then?
> > > I mean it looks like old documents (now removed) still come up when
> > > searching...
> > > is there a way to clean indexes and textcache, or should I simply remove
> > > these directories in the .beagle folder now and then?
> > It should, but I have had the indexes get stale, especially if I worked
> > for awhile with the beagle service turned off.
>
> That is right. If beagle service is running, it will monitor new files
> that are created and existing files that are removed almost
> immediately. If it is turned off, and then turned on again, then the
> changes while it was turned off are handled later:
> - new files are reported only during the next re-crawl
> - deleted files are not reported but they are removed from the beagle
> database much later and only when such a file comes up a search result
>
> In short, deleted files should not come up as a search result (I dont
> remember, but there was a bug in 0.3.7 or 0.3.8 which can cause
> something like that).
>
> Removing textcache and indexes manually should not be necessary,
> assuming there is no bug (and even less reason if beagle is running
> continuously). Note that the indexes are separated into backends and
> can be easier to remove but the textcache is not, so removing the
> textcache directory will wipe out all of textcache.

thanks for your answers!

I was worried, though, about files being indexed that are in a directory 
which is later marked as ignored with beagle-settings: will those files 
well be removed from the beagle database?

thanks again
	Lorenzo

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