phantom files

[Ryan Toler]

On Sep 11, 2008, at 12:57 PM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>  
wrote:

> 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 :-)
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I agree with both of you. Many windows -> Linux users tend to have  
behaviors that don't have very good results with Linux. There are  
becoming more and more post saying "I reinstalled ubuntu but it didn't  
help" maybe some effort should go into teaching new users that Linux  
is not windows. A page in the wiki or maybe a link in firefox's  
default start page togove some advice to them. Many Irc questions are  
simple windows to Linux translation errors, people asking how to  
defray or how to install/run a .exe or why doesn't this game work. It  
may seem a given that e don't have to defrag our drives but many are  
so used to doing it they think it must be done.