Re: [Tracker] Inquiry into work required to support removable media

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 11:12 -0400, Mike McWay wrote:
> as i may have poorly explained before, this would mostly be useful for
> large external drives used on many machines (cutting duplication of
> index) or having instant searchability on a machine that is new or
> that you may never use again (such as a friend's computer).
>
> in any case, could make it a prompt to store locally or on drive when
> indexing begins
>
> side note:
> tracker-search-tool could also be changed to offer options to search
> just the local db, just external db, or both together

I will think about supporting multiple indexes in different places  - it
can affect performance though so need to be careful

currently only one index in home is supported

jamie