Re: [Tracker] Tracker for networked home document management

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 28/04/12 06:16, Aaron Whitehouse wrote:
> Thanks all, that's very helpful.
>
> On 25/04/12 06:40, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > On 07/04/12 08:45, Aaron Whitehouse wrote:
> > > > Another option is to put all your files in a folder (visible to all
> > > > users) and let tracker index it per-user. In that case each user will
> > > > have its own databases. Then the information in the database but not
> > > > in the files (E.g. tags added by the user) won't be shared.
>
> It would be really handy for me if there was a configuration option for
> Tracker that let you change the Tracker database location for a
> particular folder or mount point (ie, all normal folders were indexed in
> the normal place, but all documents in /mount/shared were tagged/indexed
> in /mount/shared/.Tracker). I assume that this is not currently possible?

You can set it by setting the XDG directory locations, but that's not 
unique to Tracker, all applications (generally) around GNOME should be 
using these locations. For more information about the ~/.cache and 
~/.local/share directories we use, see:

  http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

In particular XDG_CACHE_HOME and XDG_DATA_HOME

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Regards,
Martyn

Founder and CEO of Lanedo GmbH.