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Can I create two Recoll databases, each for different directories?
Expanding answer from @Glutanimate - I will provide example of the solution based on creating different directories with recoll configuration for multiple indexes. Let's assume that we want to have "...
3
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Ubuntu default docx parser
docx files are XML-based and are parsed by Recoll using a simple xslt transformation. Depending on the Recoll versions this just needs either xsltproc or Python libxml2/libxslt to be installed. These ...
3
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In Recoll on Ubuntu, how do I specify a particular directory to search?
Also in query language option you can specify
dir:/home/wayne/recoll
The search would restrict to 'recoll'
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Can't index .odt files with Recoll under Ubuntu
For 20.04 --
I found in lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/pages/features.html#doctypes that recoll versions >= 1.26 do not need helpers for Open Office files. This seemed to be correct. I installed recoll ...
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Recoll: Can I safely exclude ~/.recoll from a full system backup?
Yes, you can.
As a matter of fact, I let it start with option -c at /mnt/usb-C/C-gegevens/workeRmachine/.recoll which also has the xapian-database. The alias I use is stored in .bashrc, namely:
alias ...
2
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Duplicate icons of the same application created on Dock with no WM_class found
For a similar situation I have to do the following:
Determine the class as in the new answer in related question
Briefly:
open the app
AltF2, write lgEnter, go to Windows menu (up-right).
find the ...
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Can't index .odt files with Recoll under Ubuntu
Thanks for all the hints I received.
I tried to rebuild the index but got an error. I removed the $HOME/.recoll directory to rebuild the index from scratch and the message about some missing helpers ...
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Recoll. What is the difference between "mime" and "rclcat"?
mime: is a specific MIME type like text/plain or application/pdf
rclcat: refers to a grouping of MIME types, e.g. in 'text', text/plain but also application/msword, application/pdf etc. These groups ...
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Is there a way to download additional stemming packages for Recoll?
Recoll uses Xapian which has Snowball sub-project. Here are current available stemming algorithms
arabic.sbl
basque.sbl
catalan.sbl
danish.sbl
dutch.sbl
english.sbl
finnish.sbl
french.sbl
german.sbl ...
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recoll (desktop-search engine): error-message in a popup-window
O.K.,
seems I could sort it out with the help of medoc.
I posted a ticket here: https://opensourceprojects.eu/p/recoll1/tickets/68/
and got help from recoll support.
This actually isn´t an error:
...
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In Recoll on Ubuntu, how do I specify a particular directory to search?
I have Recoll 1.21.5.
Open Recoll, click on Preferences.
In the dropdown, choose Index configuration.
In the window that opens, make sure you're in the Global parameters tab.
Click on the minus ...
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Recoll - how to exclude indexing everything, then I'll add only a couple back in
In recoll, you configure starting directories. So if you just want to index two of them, specify them as starting directories.
See topdirs in official documentation:
Parameters affecting what ...
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How do I force Recoll to not check file contents?
If you really want to do this, you can add the following line to $HOME/.recoll/recoll.conf:
indexedmimetypes = none
But, as Ron noted, this does not make much sense. 'locate' or any as its front-...
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