Re: [Tracker] Tracker search does not give results when no content is indexed (only file names)

[Carlos Garnacho <carlosg gnome org>]

Hi!,

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 7:10 AM, Petko Ditchev <pditchev gmail com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> I'm trying to use tracker to only locate files (in GNOME), I don't
> really search by content for anything. So I set the "Index content of
> files found" option to false. I'm writing here instead of filing a bug,
> since I don't know if that's expected behaviour or there's something
> wrong in my setup.
>  Some details : OS - Manjaro (stable) , DE - GNOME, tracker - 1.10.5
> "tracker search a" does not give any results; "tracker search -f" lists
> the files "indexed" ; "tracker status" says there are a few thousand
> files indexed, and no active indexing (as expected) . I did a "tracker
> reset -r" and reindexing, but the result is the same. Searching by
> content works btw.

If "tracker search a" is not just an example, yes, that's expected.
There's a couple of things affecting full-text search:

1) There's a minimum length for the search term, set to 3 characters
2) There is a blacklist of far too common words (so called "stop
words") that are ignored for indexing and search purposes, basically
because they make database size explode and searching for those would
match virtually anything. I mean words like a/the/one/... you can see
all stop words at
https://git.gnome.org/browse/tracker/tree/src/libtracker-common/stop-words

If that is not the case and search fails even with more long/concrete
search terms that you know should match, please do file a bug.

Cheers,
  Carlos

> Any help would be greatly appreciated,
> Petko
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