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realloc

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Registered: 2016-09-05

Posts: 6

Tracker and GNOME 3.26

Hi!

tracker stores about 1,5 GiB of data in my .cache directory. It also restores this cache after it has been deleted manually (as expected).

However, I would like tracker to stop doing that, even if that means I will have no search index.
Sadly, it seems, the tracker-preferences program has been removed in GNOME 3.26.

Disabling "Search" in the gnome control center did not stop tracker.

Does anyone know, how I can configure tracker to stop creating this cache?

Thank you!

yttrium

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Registered: 2017-02-19

Posts: 11

Re: Tracker and GNOME 3.26

Remove the tracker-miners package. This will remove this indexing activity. Up to Gnome 3.24, you could uninstall tracker, but nowadays, it appears to be a dependency of nautilus.

realloc

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Registered: 2016-09-05

Posts: 6

Re: Tracker and GNOME 3.26

hmm I dont have the tracker-miners package installed... still that .config/tracker folder gets filled up.

It seems tracker is a dbus service (whatever that exactly is). Is there a way to disable this service like with systemd services?

gnumdk

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Registered: 2009-10-15

Posts: 175

Re: Tracker and GNOME 3.26

Simple solution:
rm -f /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Tracker1.*

But you can also just disable indexed folder in gnome settings => Search => Gear

schard

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Re: Tracker and GNOME 3.26

I am not sure whether this will work, but you can try to remove all write privileges from the respective ~/.cache/tracker directory.

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macro_rules! yolo { { $($tokens:tt)* } => { unsafe { $($tokens)* } }; }

realloc

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Registered: 2016-09-05

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Re: Tracker and GNOME 3.26

But you can also just disable indexed folder in gnome settings => Search => Gear

I can not click the gear icon, it is always disabled. However, which settings does this gear icon menu modify? Maybe I can change them manually.

I am not sure whether this will work, but you can try to remove all write privileges from the respective ~/.cache/tracker directory.

Yes, I ended up writing a systemd service which does this after booting. This works, but its an really ugly solution.

Thanks for your answers!

newsboost

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Registered: 2016-07-24

Posts: 157

Re: Tracker and GNOME 3.26

But you can also just disable indexed folder in gnome settings => Search => Gear

I can not click the gear icon, it is always disabled. However, which settings does this gear icon menu modify? Maybe I can change them manually.

I am not sure whether this will work, but you can try to remove all write privileges from the respective ~/.cache/tracker directory.

Yes, I ended up writing a systemd service which does this after booting. This works, but its an really ugly solution.

Hi, sorry for bumping in - but I have EXACTLY this problem now...

I attached a USB3-HD which is my backup (7 TB). It was really annoying to see this "tracker"-feature locked my files under /mnt/usbDrive, which I discovered with "lsof | grep..." because I couldn't "umount /mnt/usbDrive" even though I closed everything... Now I'm really angry about this "tracker"-program... Not only does it take up a LOT of disc space. It takes CPU and locks my drives so I eventually had to lazy umount...
Now I found out that the directory /home/myUser/.cache/tracker takes up 24.9 GB - out of 115 GB. RIDICULOUS! Who invented this crap?

Please share with me/us your systemd service - and/or other good solutions to this problem. Another good possibility for me, could be to tell this "tracker"-program to NOT try to "track" anything below /mnt ! I hope some of you can help with this problem, and/or share some elegant solutions, thanks!