Re: [Tracker] USB Storage device mounting - two places

[Aleksander Morgado <aleksander lanedo com>]

>   Here is the situation:
>   I plug in a USB storage device a dn mount it into a directory.
> Tracker starts indexing and returs the number of media files on that
> USB storage device. Then I unmount the USB storage device and unplug
> it. I then plug in the USB storage device once again and this time
> mount it in another directory. Tracker starts indexing and returns
> double the number of media files. Although the USB stick contains the
> same files and it was mounted in another directory tracker re
> indexes the files again. Is this the normal behavior or is it wrong?

> From mount_add() in src/libtracker-miner/tracker-storage.c:
* If the mount point doesn't have a volume (g_mount_get_volume() returns
NULL) AND there is no UUID for the mount (g_mount_get_uuid() returns
NULL), then the ID of the storage is computed as the MD5 of the Mount
Path, if any.

So, yes, it may happen, as in that case we can't really know if the USB
storage is the same or a different one. If we got a proper UUID from the
mount/volume, the storage would be detected as being known and wouldn't
be reindexed. If we don't get a proper UUID from the mount/volume, the
storage will be detected as being unknown and it would be reindexed.

Anyway, could you set "Verbosity=3" in
$HOME/.config/tracker/tracker-miner-fs.cfg; restart an initial index
with "tracker-control -rs" and email the miner-fs log file from
$HOME/.local/share/tracker/tracker-miner-fs.log ? Just to make sure
we're doing the proper things here...

Thanks!

-- 
Aleksander