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

[Petko Ditchev <pditchev gmail com>]

Thank you for the response! Yes, the problem in the CLI was that I
actually searched for "a" (I dismissed the warning message, as I
thought it was just a warning and did not block the output for the
query). The practical problem stands though - searching with GNOME (in
Overview) renders no results. I just found out that this does not apply
for the home folder. That is apparently not a tracker problem though,
I'll continue digging.

On Wed, 2017-04-19 at 15:34 -0300, Carlos Garnacho wrote:
> 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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