Re: [Tracker] Inquiry into work required to support removable media

["Mike McWay" <mmcway gmail com>]

as i may have poorly explained before, this would mostly be useful for
large external drives used on many machines (cutting duplication of
index) or having instant searchability on a machine that is new or
that you may never use again (such as a friend's computer).

in any case, could make it a prompt to store locally or on drive when
indexing begins

side note:
tracker-search-tool could also be changed to offer options to search
just the local db, just external db, or both together

On 10/26/07, Fabrizio Listello <flistellox gmail com> wrote:
> I'ld prefer to have local db on the computer. This could let me search for
> file in ALL my removable media without having them attached.
>
>
> On 10/25/07, Mike McWay <mmcway gmail com> wrote:
> > On 10/24/07, "Nikolai Weibull" <now bitwi se> wrote:
> > > According to
> >
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/tracker-list/2007-September/msg00055.html
> > > Jamie already has an idea of how to support removable media in
> > > tracker.  I'd like to see support for removable media added as soon as
> > > possible and would gladly help out.
> > >
> > > If anyone has any suggestions on removable-media support in tracker or
> > > suggestions on how to start off writing a patch for this, please do
> > > tell.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> >
> > Can imagine a scenario where there is a writable removable drive (USB
> > drive) used on several different computers running tracker. rather
> > than the duplication of having it indexed on each computer, it may be
> > more convenient to have db on the drive, have tracker recognize this,
> > and present search info to the user as if it were part of the larger
> > db.  sort of a plug-n-play db.
> >
> > advantages:
> > - keeps local db slim without info that is used infrequently or never
> again.
> > - keeps tracker from needing to distinguish relevant data in index
> > from data on media not currently available
> >
> > obviously wouldnt work with cds/dvds, but the amount of information on
> > them could be quickly indexed while my 250 GB USB drive would take
> > quite some time.  Would be instantly accessible in tracker with its
> > own db.
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> Faber