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Bug 742760 - [RFE] add method to exclude directories for scanning
[RFE] add method to exclude directories for scanning
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: tracker
Classification: Core
Component: General
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: tracker-general
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-01-11 14:34 UTC by Igor Gnatenko
Modified: 2015-01-12 06:54 UTC
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Description Igor Gnatenko 2015-01-11 14:34:52 UTC 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1180824

Some people saying that tracker shouldn't scan ~/Private, but I think that's not quite right, because no info in XDG standards.

But I think we want to add config or tool where people can add dirs for excluding from tracker.
Comment 1 Martyn Russell 2015-01-12 06:54:17 UTC 
The latest versions of tracker will ignore any directory with a .trackerignore file in it. Also, you can explicitly ignore specific directories too either by contents or by name. Actually we use this configuration for the .trackerignore by default.

You can see the existing config using:

  $ gsettings list-recursively|grep -i "Files ignored"

You can easily set this using 'tracker-preferences' or dconf-editor.