Re: [Tracker] Getting started with tracker

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 14:28 +0100, mikey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just installed tracker and I'm trying to get to grips with it's
> operation. First of all I ran it and it immediately indexed my $HOME
> folder. Because this is where I store a lot of junk(ish) files -like
> source code for installed applications - I started again by deleting
> the ~/.Tracker folder and restarting trackerd with
> -i /home/mikey/Images -i /home/mikey/personal -i
> -e /home/mikey and it started without seeming to index everything but
> also without indexing anything. So I stopped it again and edited the
> ~/Tracker/tracker.cfg file it had created. 
>
> I changed the file to:
>
> # List of directory roots to index and watch seperated by semicolons
> WatchDirectoryRoots=/home/mikey/Images/;/home/mikey/personal/;
> # List of directory roots to not index and not watch seperated by
> semicolons 
> NoWatchDirectory=/home/mikey/;
>
> and it seemed to do what I wanted. "Finished indexing. Waiting for new
> events" 
>
> But when I search for files it's not behaving as I would expect.
> For example if I tracker-search-tool for 'Blue' I don't find and files yet I have
> lots of images with blue in the title - BluePenguin-Small.jpg,
> BlueMoon-Desktop.png, BlueNebula.jpg. 
>
> Now if I search for a full 'word' in the filename like BlueMoon or BluePenguin I get the file but I don't 
> get BlueNebula. And if I search for .jpg I get a list of the indexed jpegs but it isn't all the files in 
> the folder.
>
> Could someone tell me what I'm doing wrong or if I'm just not getting how to use it?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
problem is you have set no watch dir root to home so it will not indedx
anything in home

You have to either exclude all the dirs you dont want or include only
those dirs you want (home is only automatically indexed if you dont
specify folders to include)

jamie.