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eMHa | # 11 | 2009-12-08, 20:22 | Report

Originally Posted by slaxium View Post

Hello,

I hope my question match this topic.
Is it possible to exclude directorys from tracker-search?
The cause is that i have too much music an videos on
my N900 wich are filling my list in the Media player.

I edited /home/user/.config/tracker/tracker.cfg and appended to NoWatchDirectory the to be excluded directories.

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aezhob | # 12 | 2009-12-09, 18:15 | Report

hi
i have the same problem and i cant understand how can i use xterm can some one explain

best regards

mason | # 13 | 2009-12-10, 12:18 | Report

great exactly what i needed, i was searching for the index conf since gpodder was flodding my media player with all these podcasts!

how do i restart the trackerd? and where is the mediadatadb located so i could remove it

foud it: seems to be in $HOME/.cache/tracker

since i would suspect the tracker to reindex all data after a restart of the deamon. any ideaas?

logfiles for the tracker could be found in /home/user/.local/share/tracker/

Last edited by mason; 2009-12-10 at 12:44.

eMHa | # 14 | 2009-12-10, 13:25 | Report

After i moved my pictures and movies from the inserted microSD to the internal flash i'm also in the need to reset the tracker db. tracker-processes seems to be the right solution:

Code:

user@Nokia-N900-42-11:~$ tracker-processes --help
Usage:
  tracker-processes [OPTION...]  - Manage Tracker processes and data

Help Options:
  -?, --help           Show help options

Application Options:
  -k, --kill           Use SIGKILL to stop all tracker processes found - guarantees death :)
  -t, --terminate      Use SIGTERM to stop all tracker processes found
  -r, --hard-reset     This will kill all Tracker processes and remove all databases

user@Nokia-N900-42-11:~$

So i try now

Code:

tracker-processes --hard-reset

and the result is:

Code:

user@Nokia-N900-42-11:~$ tracker-processes --hard-reset
Found 166 pids...
Found process ID 20363 for 'trackerd'
  Killed process 20363
Setting database locations
Checking database directories exist
Checking database version
Checking database files exist
Removing all database files
  Removing database:'/home/user/.local/share/tracker/data/common.db'
  Removing database:'/var/tmp/tracker-user/cache.db'
  Removing database:'/home/user/.cache/tracker/file-meta.db'
  Removing database:'/home/user/.cache/tracker/file-contents.db'
  Removing database:'/home/user/.cache/tracker/email-meta.db'
  Removing database:'/home/user/.cache/tracker/email-contents.db'
Setting index database locations
Checking index directories exist
Checking index files exist
Removing all database index files
  Removing database index:'/home/user/.cache/tracker/file-index.db'
  Removing database index:'/home/user/.cache/tracker/email-index.db'
user@Nokia-N900-42-11:~$

After this, no trackerd is running. Starting media player will start trackerd.

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mikec | # 15 | 2009-12-10, 22:10 | Report

a nice little icon and Ui to run this would be nice

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Kiberneta | # 16 | 2010-01-03, 19:41 | Report

Thanks for the tracker-processes tip. I have similar issues with album art. Changing covers in mp3 files didn't change them in Media Player.
I've found that the thumbnails are stored in .thumbnails/cropped and the covers themself in .cache/media-art. Both of them in /home/user of course. So I deleted the entire directories and... worked!
The Media Player now shows the new album covers.

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zehjotkah | # 17 | 2010-01-03, 20:18 | Report

Originally Posted by Kiberneta View Post

Thanks for the tracker-processes tip. I have similar issues with album art. Changing covers in mp3 files didn't change them in Media Player.
I've found that the thumbnails are stored in .thumbnails/cropped and the covers themself in .cache/media-art. Both of them in /home/user of course. So I deleted the entire directories and... worked!
The Media Player now shows the new album covers.

thank you so much!
that did the trick with the wrong and missing coverarts!!!!!

joppu | # 18 | 2010-01-03, 22:56 | Report

Someone should really package the tracker and the album art reset tricks into a easy to use application so the end users can also enjoy these functions,

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bbhl | # 19 | 2010-01-06, 16:51 | Report

Originally Posted by joppu View Post

Someone should really package the tracker and the album art reset tricks into a easy to use application so the end users can also enjoy these functions,

I think that it will work through the shortcut:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=RCache
Exec=/usr/bin/osso-xterm 'tracker-processes --hard-reset'
Icon=<your_choice>

in /usr/share/applications/hildon (see one of <any>.desktop files for example). Once added, you'll find this shortcut in More menu.

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skalogre | # 20 | 2010-01-06, 21:19 | Report

Originally Posted by bbhl View Post

I think that it will work through the shortcut:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=RCache
Exec=/usr/bin/osso-xterm 'tracker-processes --hard-reset'
Icon=<your_choice>

in /usr/share/applications/hildon (see one of <any>.desktop files for example). Once added, you'll find this shortcut in More menu.

Works like a charm. Thanks!