Questions tagged [tracker]
Tracker is a semantic data storage for desktop and mobile devices.
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Tracker process taking lot of CPU
I'm trying to understand what the different background processes are doing on my machine as this one is freezing from time to time. I have noticed that the tracker processes (there are several of them ...
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no progress updates from gnome tracker
I very much want to have desktop search working on a new Ubuntu Gnome 17.04 installation. I realize that initial indexing might take a while, but for more than 12 hours, tracker status has returned:
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Can the Unity dash search for content within files?
Will Unity Search have support for content search? I know tracker can index your files and you can then search for them, but is it possible to get this with "in" unity?
use case:
I click the super ...
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How to search for files by tags?
I can tag files with nautilus but haven't found a solution to find files by tags so far. Tracker-search-tool doesn't offer to search for tags, nor does Nautilus, nor any other application I'm aware of....
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Clear .cache Tracker directory in Ubuntu?
I created a partition for Ubuntu, and I just ran out of space a couple of days ago.
I used the Disk Usage Analyzer and I realized that for some reason the directory /home/.cache uses up a lot of disk ...
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Modifying file contents very slow on upgrade to Ubuntu 19.04
I performed an upgrade from Ubuntu 18.10 to 19.04 and noticed that (somehow) creating, modifying, and deleting files is now much slower. Simply creating or deleting an empty file takes around 3 ...
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How do you configure Tracker search indexing tool?
The project page mentions tracker-preferences but I don't have this command with version 2.0.3.
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After upgrading from 18.10 to 19.04, `tracker-extract` eats up so much RAM it freezes my machine
I did do-release-update from 18.10 and my computer freeze after a couple minutes using gnome with the tracker-extract process, even though my computer has 8 Go of RAM and 4 Go of SWAP that all get ...
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Ubuntu 20.04.1 tracker-miner errors in Syslog
New install of 20.04.1 running only pi.hole and unifi controller software. It’s Ubuntu desktop, but I’m basically running it headless.
I’ve noticed that I’m getting this set of tracker-miner related ...
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Is anyone aware of any progress made in packing updated versions of tracker (desktop search tool)?
I understand that tracker is no longer installed by default on the Ubuntu desktop. Nevertheless, I really like having a desktop search tool. (When I used to work with Windows XP I thought that Google ...
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tracker service running every minute
I have the following lines repeating every minute in my /var/log/syslog file.
Oct 9 19:19:42 my_machine dbus-daemon[2138]: [session uid=1000 pid=2138] Activating via systemd: service name='org....
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tracker-miner-fs crashes on Ubuntu 20.04
I upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 today, and after this upgrade tracker-miner-fs seems to crash and restart contiguously; pegging my CPU at 100% until I manually kill the process.
The error I'm getting in /...
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TimeTracker app that logs programs
Does anyone know of a time tracker app that logs which program you are using. So, if I'm using LibreOffice it'll log me as working, but then when the focus switches back to chrome, it'll log me as "...
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How to uninstall all trackers (tracker-miner: fs, apps)
How can I uninstall this programs in Ubuntu 16.04? Permanently from being installed by updates.
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Ubuntu 20.4 .cache tracker is taking my space
I have 200 gb of space in my portion and the .cache tracker meta.db-wal took 140gb of that space and I don’t know how to clear it. I saw that you can disable the tracker but without actually informing ...
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Advanced searching in Tracker Search Tool? Filter by folders?
I have checked several "Tracker Search Tool" questions, but they all stop at very superficial usage. Google, at least for me, didn't turn out anything either. I am using Maverick, 10.10.
Here is my ...
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Import python bindings for meta Tracker introspection
When I try to run the metaTracker introspection examples or import the Tracker module in iPython console I get an import error. Googling for this particular error message doesn't turn up anything ...
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