How to remove Meta Tracker integration in Nautilus [closed]

This question is unlikely to help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet. For help making this question more broadly applicable, visit the help center. Closed 9 years … Read more

15.10 freezes every 10 minutes

Every freeze is preceeded typically by the following sylsog entry. It is a gst_discoverer_discover call (one of several hundred recorded immediately before every freeze) as an example: Oct 20 19:35:54 david-1510 gnome-session[1552]: (tracker-extract:1803): Tracker-WARNING **: Call to gst_discoverer_discover_uri(file:///home/david/Downloads/**linux-rpi-4.1.y**/arch/arm/boot/dts/overlays/hifiberry-dacplus-overlay.dts) failed: Ressource nicht gefunden. (last few words translate to Resource not found in English) Some of the … Read more

Tracker recursive indexing fails

I would like tracker to index my complete home directory and all sub-directories / files. I set my home directory as the only directory in the tracker “places” (for indexing) in the tracker configuration and turned on recursive indexing but unfortunately it seems to have no effect. When I start Activities (Ubuntu Gnome 14.04) via … Read more

/usr/lib/tracker/tracker-store causes very heavy CPU load on Debian “Buster”

After the last upgrade on: Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux buster/sid Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-686-pae Architecture: x86 /usr/lib/tracker/tracker-store eats a huge load of CPU. PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 7039 nath 20 0 96136 24460 11480 R 100,0 1,3 0:01.76 tracker-store When I run tracker daemon I get: Miners: 17 … Read more

Command line search using tracker database

I am using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I understand there are no GUIs to interact with tracker‘s database. Is there a way to perform a search for contents in tracker’s database via command line? Answer It’s simple… $ tracker search <regex> AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : sancho.s ReinstateMonicaCellio , Answer Author : sancho.s ReinstateMonicaCellio

Control what information tracker indexes

I am looking for information on tracker, and generally speaking I find it very scarce. In particular, is there any reference describing the possible configuration to set what tracker indexes? I found here the following configuration options, but I don’t know how/where to use them — enable-writeback false — index-optical-discs false — index-on-battery false — … Read more