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oldnick

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Registered: 2019-10-25

Posts: 4

Full Text search in Nautilus/Files

Hi there,

How is the Full Text search feature of Nautilus/Files supposed to work? It always returns "No Results Found" no matter what I search, even if I search the word "Adam" inside a directory that contains a single text file with the content "Adam".

The functionality is there in the user interface but I can't see it documented anywhere.

Thanks

Last edited by oldnick (2019-10-28 17:12:11)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,372

Re: Full Text search in Nautilus/Files

Any terminal output? In general tracker should be runnning and indexing.

Maybe throw in

systemctl --user status tracker-store tracker-extract tracker-miner-fs

oldnick

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Registered: 2019-10-25

Posts: 4

Re: Full Text search in Nautilus/Files

got this:

● tracker-store.service - Tracker metadata database store and lookup manager
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/tracker-store.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)

Oct 28 18:50:44 cc tracker-store[39975]: OK
Oct 28 18:50:44 cc systemd[37764]: tracker-store.service: Succeeded.
Oct 28 18:50:46 cc systemd[37764]: Starting Tracker metadata database store and lookup manager...
Oct 28 18:50:46 cc systemd[37764]: Started Tracker metadata database store and lookup manager.
Oct 28 18:51:17 cc tracker-store[40114]: OK
Oct 28 18:51:17 cc systemd[37764]: tracker-store.service: Succeeded.
Oct 28 18:51:41 cc systemd[37764]: Starting Tracker metadata database store and lookup manager...
Oct 28 18:51:41 cc systemd[37764]: Started Tracker metadata database store and lookup manager.
Oct 28 18:52:12 cc tracker-store[40177]: OK
Oct 28 18:52:12 cc systemd[37764]: tracker-store.service: Succeeded.

● tracker-extract.service - Tracker metadata extractor
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/tracker-extract.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)

Oct 28 18:48:34 cc systemd[37764]: tracker-extract.service: Succeeded.
Oct 28 18:49:47 cc systemd[37764]: Starting Tracker metadata extractor...
Oct 28 18:49:48 cc systemd[37764]: Started Tracker metadata extractor.
Oct 28 18:49:58 cc systemd[37764]: tracker-extract.service: Succeeded.
Oct 28 18:50:13 cc systemd[37764]: Starting Tracker metadata extractor...
Oct 28 18:50:13 cc systemd[37764]: Started Tracker metadata extractor.
Oct 28 18:50:24 cc systemd[37764]: tracker-extract.service: Succeeded.
Oct 28 18:50:46 cc systemd[37764]: Starting Tracker metadata extractor...
Oct 28 18:50:46 cc systemd[37764]: Started Tracker metadata extractor.
Oct 28 18:50:58 cc systemd[37764]: tracker-extract.service: Succeeded.

● tracker-miner-fs.service - Tracker file system data miner
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/tracker-miner-fs.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2019-10-28 18:40:40 CET; 14min ago
 Main PID: 39431 (tracker-miner-f)
   CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/tracker-miner-fs.service
           └─39431 /usr/lib/tracker-miner-fs

while tracker status:

currently indexed: 886 files, 139 folders
Remaining space on database partition: 681.4 GB (73.33%)
All data miners are idle, indexing complete

If I add a new text file in my home folder (Which is indexed) the counter increases but I still can't search for the file content

and tracker daemon

Store:
28 Oct 2019, 18:57:58:  ✗     Store                   - Unavailable

Miners:
28 Oct 2019, 18:57:58:  ✓     RSS/ATOM Feeds          - Idle 
28 Oct 2019, 18:57:58:  ✓     File System             - Idle 
28 Oct 2019, 18:57:58:  ✗     Extractor               - Not running or is a disabled plugin

Last edited by oldnick (2019-10-28 17:59:37)

oldnick

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Registered: 2019-10-25

Posts: 4

Re: Full Text search in Nautilus/Files

I think I'm also uncertain about the following: if I add a folder, say "folder-1" to the search locations, will tracker index the file "file-1" located in "folder-1 -> sub-folder-1 -> file-1"?

I'm asking this because I noticed that if I add a new folder that contains only (not empty) subfolders, only the folder counter is updated.