Re: beagle indexes and cache

[D Bera <dbera web gmail com>]

>>>> 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?
...
>
> 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?

They would definitely not show up in search results - the search
results are filtered based on current availability and beagle-settings
ignore list.
As far as actually removing them from the database is concerned, I
don't remember off the top of my head how it is dealt with. Ideally,
the entries should be removed since the index (and esp. the textcache)
might retain information that the user doesnt want it to contain ...
but ignoring a directory involves traversing all files and directories
beneath it which soon creates a nightmare. I remember seeing some code
on dropping the contents of the ignored directories but I am can't
remember if it is complete or what exactly it does.

- dBera

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