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 Montag, den 23.03.2009, 19:45 +0100 schrieb Thomas Mittelstaedt:
> 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.

the code in "if (++counter >= 2) {" below never got executed. I did set
counter to 1, then it got called and the tags restored!

/*
 * TODO: Ugly hack counting signals because the indexer is sending two
"Finished" signals
 *  and only the second really mean "finished processing modules".
 *
 * Saving the last backup file to help with debugging.
 */
static void
crawling_finished_cb (TrackerProcessor *processor, 
                      gpointer          user_data)
{
        GError *error = NULL;
        gulong *callback_id;
        static gint counter = 1; /* Changed to 1, was 0 */
        
        callback_id = user_data;

        if (++counter >= 2) {
                gchar *rebackup;

                g_debug ("Uninstalling initial crawling callback");
                g_signal_handler_disconnect (processor, *callback_id);

                if (g_file_test (get_ttl_backup_filename (), G_FILE_TEST_EXISTS)) {
                        org_freedesktop_Tracker_Indexer_restore_backup
(tracker_dbus_indexer_get_proxy (),
                                                                        get_ttl_backup_filename (),
                                                                        &error);


> 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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-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Thomas Mittelstaedt