Re: [Tracker] tracker's database keeps stale data around

["Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <tshepang gmail com>]

On 1/3/07, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> wrote:
> Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Tracker's database data is not deleted when, for example, a certain
> > path is on NoWatchDirectory.
> > I tested by putting /home/user/temp on NoWatchDirectory which had some
> > text file whose contents continued appearing on the search results.
> > This becomes a problem because if one modifies such a file, wrong
> > results appear since such a file's directory is not watched anymore.
>
> we cant delete stuff in tracker thats not being actively watched (which
> means NoWatchDirectories)
>
> They should not even be indexed in the first place. I guess we could
> clear out any data in tracker which references nowatch stuff at start up

I should have explained that such data was indexed before. I then
killed trackerd, modified the tracker.cfg file to stop watch on a
previously-indexed directory, and then started trackerd.

> > Another problem that should be related is that Tracker's log file
> > lists that I have over 20,000 audio files while I only have about
> > 10,000, and I only additionally track /usr/share/doc which I doubt
> > should contain any audio files, especially that many.
>
> are you sure?
>
> Can you run "tracker-stats" to confirm?

This is the data I read on tracker.log on startup. Does it suffice?

> if so bear in mind that any file of mime type audio/* is considered
> audio (IE wav, voc, real, snd and other audio formats)

I'm aware of that and I can assure you that I don't have that many.
I just installed 0.5.3 which is currently indexing, and I will confirm
if the problem remains (or if I really have that many audio files).