Re: [Tracker] Question about the internals of Tracker and extractors

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 07/10/10 13:46, Ken Schmedding wrote:
> I believe those errors were caused by my prototype RTF extractor.  It is
> raw, slow, and needs some work.  It does work if I point tracker at a
> directory with only the RTF files in it.  But if I let tracker handle a
> larger directory structure with about 5 GB of content and the RTF files
> I can't extract from them due to the dbus timeout.

What version of tracker are you using?

>  Some of the RTF
> files are several MB in size.  For the purposes of my development of a
> more robust and faster extractor I wouldn't mind temporarily changing
> the dbus timeout if possible.  I just don't know where that is in the
> code.  Good description there Martyn, I would call my prototype RTF
> extractor dodgy at the moment!

I didn't mean to imply ;) but we have had some really badly written ones 
in the past which is why we needed to add that solution.

Are you also interested in submitting this upstream at some point? We do 
have a bug about that IIRC.

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Regards,
Martyn