Tracker won't track

[rikona]

On Mon, 13 Dec 2021 08:40:13 +0100
Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:

> Am Montag, dem 13.12.2021 um 01:44 -0500 schrieb Slade Watkins:
> > On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 1:35 AM Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de>
> > wrote:  
> > > I've done a reboot lately, perhaps that's the reason.  
> > 
> > More than likely.
> > 
> > In my experience - Tracker tends to work better after reboots.
> > Indexing takes forever though. If you're still having trouble even
> > after the reboot and letting the index get done, then I'd be
> > concerned.  
> 
> I'll let that indexing run finish and test it afterwards.
> 
> That file system miner uses only one processor core. It should be
> possible to make indexing much faster if all cores were used...
> Especially when the data resides on an SSD.

Another possibility is recoll - also does indexed search. I like it
because of the sophistication of the searches it can do, and the
tailoring of what it does. Used it for years, good pgm. Handles 4Tb of
data files well but that has a rather large index. :-)

Rik