phantom files
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Thu Sep 11 17:57:30 UTC 2008
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
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