Public bug reported:
I'm sometimes using `yt-dlp` to download videos from various websites.
It happened to me twice already, that my syslog got spammed with lines
like this:
```plaintext
2025-05-07T01:19:33.098045+02:00 scrooge tracker-miner-fs-3[991717]:
(tracker-extract-3:991717): Tracker-WARNING **: 01:19:33.097: Task for
'file:///home/nomike/Videos/Look%20Around%20You%20Module%200%20-%20Calcium%20%5Bx566nbi%5D.tmp.mp4'
finished with error: Error when getting information for file
“/home/nomike/Videos/Look Around You Module 0 - Calcium [x566nbi].tmp.mp4”: No
such file or directory
2025-05-07T01:19:33.116188+02:00 scrooge tracker-miner-fs-3[991717]:
(tracker-extract-3:991717): Tracker-WARNING **: 01:19:33.116: Could not get
mimetype, Error when getting information for file “/home/nomike/Videos/Look
Around You Module 0 - Calcium [x566nbi].tmp.mp4”: No such file or directory
```
This message repeats ~200 times per second.
My syslogs files are bloated and it costs a ton of performance:
```plaintext
$ du -h /var/log/syslog*
5,2G /var/log/syslog
7,5G /var/log/syslog.1
472M /var/log/syslog.2.gz
2,3M /var/log/syslog.3.gz
1,1G /var/log/syslog.4.gz
```
I was able to remedy this with
```bash
tracker3-reset -f /home/nomike/Videos/
killall tracker-miner-fs-3
```
and I thought that will be the end of it.
But today I noticed this again, thus I'm filing this bug.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.10
Package: tracker-miner-fs 3.7.3-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.11.0-25.25-generic 6.11.11
Uname: Linux 6.11.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.30.0-0ubuntu4.2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed May 7 01:23:18 2025
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-07-14 (663 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" - Release amd64 (20230414.1)
SourcePackage: tracker-miners
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oracular on 2024-11-21 (166 days ago)
** Affects: tracker-miners (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug oracular wayland-session
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syslog spammed with "file not found" errors
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