as i may have poorly explained before, this would mostly be useful for large external drives used on many machines (cutting duplication of index) or having instant searchability on a machine that is new or that you may never use again (such as a friend's computer).
in any case, could make it a prompt to store locally or on drive when indexing begins side note: tracker-search-tool could also be changed to offer options to search just the local db, just external db, or both together On 10/26/07, Fabrizio Listello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'ld prefer to have local db on the computer. This could let me search for > file in ALL my removable media without having them attached. > > > On 10/25/07, Mike McWay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 10/24/07, "Nikolai Weibull" <now bitwi se> wrote: > > >According to > > > > > > >http://mail.gnome.org/archives/tracker-list/2007-September/msg00055.html > > > > > >Jamie already has an idea of how to support removable media in > > >tracker. I'd like to see support for removable media added as soon as > > >possible and would gladly help out. > > > > > >If anyone has any suggestions on removable-media support in tracker or > > >suggestions on how to start off writing a patch for this, please do > > >tell. > > > > > >Thanks! > > > > Can imagine a scenario where there is a writable removable drive (USB > > drive) used on several different computers running tracker. rather > > than the duplication of having it indexed on each computer, it may be > > more convenient to have db on the drive, have tracker recognize this, > > and present search info to the user as if it were part of the larger > > db. sort of a plug-n-play db. > > > > advantages: > > - keeps local db slim without info that is used infrequently or never > again. > > - keeps tracker from needing to distinguish relevant data in index > > from data on media not currently available > > > > obviously wouldnt work with cds/dvds, but the amount of information on > > them could be quickly indexed while my 250 GB USB drive would take > > quite some time. Would be instantly accessible in tracker with its > > own db. > > _______________________________________________ > > tracker-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list > > > > > > -- > --- > Faber _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
