Re: [Tracker] [tracker svn trunk] tracker clobbering my tags after svn update, are not backed up to common.db

[Thomas Mittelstaedt <tmstaedt t-mittelstaedt de>]

Am Sonntag, den 22.03.2009, 13:45 +0200 schrieb Ivan Frade:
> hi all,
>
>  We have already a "backup" mechanism that export that user data to a
> ttl file, and restores those data after reindex.
>
>  Are you compiling tracker with libraptor enabled? It is only
> optional, and this feature depends on it. If you have it, could you
> also please check if there is a "tracker-user-data.ttl" file in
> ~/.local/share/tracker ?

Okay, installed libraptor and rebuilt tracker. It now creates a file
called tracker-user-data.ttl in ~/.local/share/tracker/data/, but
apparently fails to load it upon re-index, since I checked that file and
the tag information was there, then did reindex and the tags would not
be loaded.

thomas

>  regards,
>
> Ivan
>
> On 3/21/09, Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com> wrote:
> > Thomas Mittelstaedt wrote:
> > > Hallo,
> > >
> > > I use the svn trunk version, and after updating via "svn up" (built,
> > > installed and restarted trackerd), I noticed, my tags were clobbered
> > > (=deleted), again! How come?
> > > Also, I noticed that the tags seem to be in
> > > ~/.cache/tracker/file-meta.db only and don't make it into common.db.
> >
> > Database schema and version changed which means a reindex is forced. We
> > really should fix it though so personal data (like tags aren't included
> > in this). This is a legacy issue which needs resolving.
> >
> > Sorry for the inconvenience here :(
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Martyn
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