tracker search not working?

[Michael Johnson]

On 3/13/07, Must Karu <mustikas008 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> can anyone confirm that ports/sysutils/tracker search
> works properly on FreeBSD?  I installed it from ports,
> and although trackerd now runs, with the tracker.log
> file containing all these zillion directories it
> claims to be watching, the thing does not seem to be
> working.  For: when I invoke tracker-extract on a .txt
> file that contains some text, it outputs nothing.  (It
> is supposed to output the search results to stdout as
> one can read on the tracker webpage.)  Likewise,
> tracker-seach-tool gives `no results' for any possible
> search string; and I've tried files that are obviously
> listed even in the tracker .log file.  tracker-stats
> gives nothing.  The search GUI freezes for about half
> a minute when I enter a search string.  So, all in all
> the trackerd search seems to do nothing.  I wonder
> where might the fault lie?  I could do more tests to
> help locate the cause of this behaviour but don't know
> what I could or should do really.  Can anyone point me
> to how I should proceed?  Does anybody have a working
> tracker on their system?


it works for me, plus if the directory you are tracking is rather
large it can take hours and hours to complete a database.

with that said, there are quite a few bugs and I have had to
"rm -rf ~/.Tracker" more than once since I started using it.

Michael


thanks, must
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