Re: [Tracker] Fwd: Re: Searching with Meta Tracker

[Aleksander Morgado <aleksander lanedo com>]

> Is there a later stable version than Tracker 0.8.17 in the UNSTABLE 
> version repository?

The unstable PPA comes with a version of Tracker from the 0.9 series,
also quite old. Not sure which version will be packaged for the next
Ubuntu release, hope it's from the 0.12 series.

> Ubuntu 10.04 Gnome: System>Preferences>Search and indexing>Indexing 
> Preferences>Locations tab.
> Recursively indexed: /home/johnb/Desktop
> Non-Recursively indexed: /home/johnb/
> On the "Indexing" tab i have checked the box "Monitor file and directory 
> changes"
> Am i right in thinking that the effect of these settings together is to 
> index changes only on "Desktop" and not index changes to 
> directories,files and folders "/home /johnb"?

With that configuration, you will have everything
under /home/johnb/Desktop indexed and monitored, every file or directory
within it. And you will also have indexed every file under /home/johnb,
but not any directory.

> johnb johnb-desktop:~$ /usr/libexec/tracker-extract-f 
> /home/johnb/Desktop/qpw.jpg
> bash: /usr/libexec/tracker-extract-f
> : No such file or directory
> Now that result i dont get. tracker-extract cant find my image file 
> "qpw.jpg"even though i can see it right there on my desktop? =-O

The 'no such file or directory' is not about the file path you gave, it
is about the tracker-extract binary itself. The binary is called
"tracker-extract" so you need to put a whitespace between
"tracker-extract" and "-f". Also, ensure the tracker-extract file is
in /usr/libexec. It may be in /usr/lib, depending on how it was
packaged.


-- 
Aleksander