On 1/3/07, Jamie McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Tracker's database data is not deleted when, for example, a certain > > path is on NoWatchDirectory. > > I tested by putting /home/user/temp on NoWatchDirectory which had some > > text file whose contents continued appearing on the search results. > > This becomes a problem because if one modifies such a file, wrong > > results appear since such a file's directory is not watched anymore. > > we cant delete stuff in tracker thats not being actively watched (which > means NoWatchDirectories) > > They should not even be indexed in the first place. I guess we could > clear out any data in tracker which references nowatch stuff at start up
I should have explained that such data was indexed before. I then killed trackerd, modified the tracker.cfg file to stop watch on a previously-indexed directory, and then started trackerd. > > Another problem that should be related is that Tracker's log file > > lists that I have over 20,000 audio files while I only have about > > 10,000, and I only additionally track /usr/share/doc which I doubt > > should contain any audio files, especially that many. > > are you sure? > > Can you run "tracker-stats" to confirm? This is the data I read on tracker.log on startup. Does it suffice? > if so bear in mind that any file of mime type audio/* is considered > audio (IE wav, voc, real, snd and other audio formats) I'm aware of that and I can assure you that I don't have that many. I just installed 0.5.3 which is currently indexing, and I will confirm if the problem remains (or if I really have that many audio files). _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
