Hi Michael, On 3/28/07, Michael Letourneau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I know many (most?) dislike beagle and turn it off, but I actually have a need to use it right now, and thought it would be a good solution to finding some information I have mis-placed.
I'm the main developer of Beagle, so I'm certainly interested to know why people turn it off. Is it a lack of necessity, is it a failure in user experience, is it misbehaving in some way (including CPU pegging or memory hogging)? This is all useful information to me, and I want to fix any bugs people come across. I know a lot of people don't want to deal with debugging software, but especially in a community distribution I hope there are those who will help, rather than uninstalling it as a workaround for some issue. Anyway, on to your email. :)
I have a bunch of tar'd gzip'd mail files (plain text nothing outlandish they were IMAP accessed) that are archives, from reading on the beagle-project.org site it looks like they should be indexed when beagle does its indexing, as "archive files" are supported out of the box (or at least thats the indication I am getting).
I get to the exact explanation below, but one thing you can try in general if you can't find a specific file is to run the "beagle-extract-content" tool on a file to see how Beagle views it. Ie, the mime type that is detected, metadata extract from the document, and the actual content itself.
So I figured maybe its just something thats turned off, and so I did a beagle-info --list-filters and did not any mime types applicable for archives. So now I am left with the question, how do I turn this on, if its off, or do I need to create my own filter/backend for this?
Archive support wasn't added to Beagle until the 0.2.14 release, and openSUSE has 0.2.12. Fortunately there's a Beagle project in the openSUSE build service which always has the latest version: http://software.opensuse.org/download/Beagle/ It has 0.2.16.3 for 10.1 and 10.2. If you install that, it will have to reindex your data but it will pick up archive files. Let me know if you have any problems or want more info. Thanks, Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
