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Index: README
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--- README (revision 2277)
+++ README (working copy)
@@ -12,7 +12,9 @@ Table of Contents
5.1 Notes on Solaris
5.2 Compile Options
6 Running Tracker
- 6.1 Setting Inotify Watch Limit
+ 6.1 Usage
+ 6.2 Setting Inotify Watch Limit
+ 6.3 Tracker files
7 Tracker & Nautilus Search
8 Tracker & Deskbar applet
9 Tracker tools
@@ -117,6 +119,8 @@ Table of Contents
* Provides option to disable indexing when running on battery.
+ * Provides option to index removable devices.
+
* Implements the freedesktop specification for metadata
(http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/shared-filemetadata-spec).
@@ -177,6 +181,10 @@ Table of Contents
* unac (accent stripper)
* exempi
* libxml2
+ * libxml2 (for extracting html/xml content)
+ * hal 0.5 (for detection of removable devices, mounted
+ directories, as well as whether the computer is running on
+ battery)
4.3 For building Tracker's Deskbar-applet backend
@@ -278,7 +286,12 @@ Table of Contents
--enable-external-qdbm : use system qdbm instead of one included
in Tracker
- --disable-hal : disables HAL support for ac-power detection
+ --disable-hal : disables HAL support, which is for detecting
+ whether the computer is running on battery (for EG, determining
+ whether to run the indexer in such a case), whether a removable
+ device has been attached (for EG, determining whether to index
+ its contents), and for detecting mounted directories (for EG,
+ determining whether to index such)
--disable-trackerapplet : disables Tracker's notification applet
@@ -286,8 +299,10 @@ Table of Contents
6 Running Tracker
- To run Tracker, you need to manually start the Tracker daemon,
- trackerd. By default trackerd will index your entire home
+6.1 Usage
+
+ To run Tracker, you need to manually start the Tracker daemon,
+ trackerd. By default trackerd will index your entire home
directory.
You can also pass a directory root to be indexed as a command
@@ -337,9 +352,9 @@ Table of Contents
"WatchDirectoryRoots=directory1;directory2;directory3""
- An additional option is the "--reindex" option which indexes
- user data from scratch, removing the need to remove Tracker
- database manually.
+ An additional option is "--reindex" which indexes user data from
+ scratch, removing the need to delete Tracker's database manually.
+ Keywords and metadata definitions are preserved however.
On the first run, Tracker will automatically create a new
database and start populating it with metadata by browsing
@@ -355,7 +370,7 @@ Table of Contents
tracker-search SEARCHTERM)
-6.1 Setting Inotify Watch Limit
+6.2 Setting Inotify Watch Limit
When watching large numbers of folders, its ppossible to exceed
the default number of inotify watches. In order to get real time
@@ -370,7 +385,24 @@ Table of Contents
"sudo /etc/init.d/procps restart"
+6.3 Tracker files
+ Here is some of the files that Tracker uses during its operation,
+ apart from "~/.config/tracker" which is stated above, in Sec 6.1:
+
+ * "~/.local/share/tracker" is used for non-expendable content,
+ like keywords and metadata definitions.
+
+ * "~/.cache/tracker" is used for the expendable indexes and
+ expendable metadata that can be rebuilt if deleted (this is the
+ purpose of the ".cache" - its more a permanent tmp directory than
+ sys tmp but can be deleted if more disk space is needed).
+
+ * The system tmp ("/var/tmp" and "/tmp") is used for short-lived
+ session data.
+
+
+
7 Tracker & Nautilus Search
Once you have installed Tracker and have some indexed contents,
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