if you type "gnome tracker" in google it leads you to https://wiki.gnome.org/Tracker besides my question why people do not use search engines: nobody *needs* all this indexing crap for his daily workload Am 04.07.2013 21:04, schrieb D. Hugh Redelmeier: > Do you use tracker? Can you give examples of how you've used it > and if you find it useful? > > Is there a useful guide to exploiting tracker? > > > ==== background / war story > > I've been oblivious to tracker. I must have had it for some time, but > it hasn't crashed so it didn't come to my attention. > > It has come to my attention now because it has filled my home > partition. It was taking almost half a gigabyte. > > Anxious to throw stuff overboard from my 0-bytes-free /home, I deleted > the Firefox cache (politely via Firecox Edit: Preferences: Advanced: > Network: Cached Web Content: Clear Now). That dealt with the second > largest space-hog (after tracker). > > I then tried to find a way to get useful information out of tracker. > It meant installing a bunch of packages that seemed to be > tracker-related. I then ran Desktop Search. I couldn't get it to > find anything useful. It couldn't even do what locate could do. > > Oh, and the ~.cache/tracker directory shrank a lot while I was doing > this. To the point that it isn't a problem (22 megabytes). Could it > be that it was tracking the Firefox cache and when I got rid of that, > the index shrank? > > (I used fedup to upgrade from Feora 18 to 19 overnight. It was after > this that I had a full /home (it wasn't full when I first booted after > the upgrade, but it was down to a quarter gigabyte of free space). I > wonder if this is related.)
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