phantom files

[Derek Broughton]

Pastor JW wrote:

> I have been wondering about that as it seems an awful lot of windoze
> "cures"
> and indeed windoze support on this list.  Is Ubuntu really as bad an OS as
> windoze?  I look at the top of the page alot to reassure myself and it
> always seems to say "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general
> discussions" but
> the subject is fully 90 percent windoze, or windoze type advice!  Reboot,
> reinstall, etc, never cure the original problem, and worse they are
> usually

Funny, I've never noticed that, and I've been here since before Ubuntu was
officially released.  We generally try to fix problems not work around
them.

> On this question, why are there two separate databases used 

because they do two very different things.  locate indexes filenames,
nothing more.  tracker indexes content.

> Tracker seems to get massive so I'd suspect there are bugs to work out
> there yet.

I don't know how you would index all the content on your system without
getting massive :-)
-- 
derek