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Tracker doesn't work

Asked by Jim Hutchinson

Maybe I misunderstand what the Deskbar is supposed to do, but I thought if you entered a search string it would find files and such matching. However, when I enter in part of the name of a file in my home folder under actions it says "search for file names like..." When I click that a new window opens called Tracker and it just says your search didn't find anything. I have tried this several times and each time I get the "no hits" response. It doesn't even seem like it looks. It just opens and gives me that message.

What am I doing wrong? Does this need to be configured a certain way in order for it to work?

Thanks.

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Murat Gunes (mgunes) said : 		#1

Do you have the Tracker Live Search extension active in Deskbar?

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hobbsda (infodc) said : 		#2

I am having the same problem. I have also tried finding files from the command line and that doesn't work.

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Jim Hutchinson (jphutch) said : 		#3

Murat,

Thanks for the help. Yes, I have the deskbar tool and can click it and open up the search tool. I can insert a string and it will give me some choices for web or to search my computer. If I click to search the computer it opens a new window and tells me nothing was found - even though it didn't look like it even looked.

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Murat Gunes (mgunes) said : 		#4

What I meant was: is "Tracker Live Search" activated in the "Searches" tab of the Deskbar preferences?

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Jim Hutchinson (jphutch) said : 		#5

The following are activated:

History
Programs
Web
Files, folders and places
Web bookmarks (mozilla)
Web Searches (mozilla)
Tracker Live Search
Files and folders search

The following are not activated:

Computer actions
Developer Documentation
Dictionary
Recent documents
Tracker search
Web history (mozilla)
Window switcher
Yahoo! search
del.icio.us bookmarks

Thanks.

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Jim Hutchinson (jphutch) said : 		#6

Sorry, hit wrong button.

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Best Murat Gunes (mgunes) said : 		#7

Tracker sometimes fails when terminated abruptly (power failures or forced shutdown). A workaround is to stop it and reindex everything. Try the instructions here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=578923

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Jim Hutchinson (jphutch) said : 		#8

Thanks Murat Güneş, that solved my question.

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Jim Hutchinson (jphutch) said : 		#9

Well, that may have been the issue. After a reboot it's working fine. Not sure why it quit working. Actually, I don't recall it ever working but then I don't use it much. The first time I tried it didn't work. I figured after all the drive activity to index everything it should have easily found what I was looking for. In any case it seems to be working so it must have been bad timing on my part.

Thanks.

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Murat Gunes (mgunes) said : 		#10

Good to know it works. The upcoming release of Tracker is said to fix this issue.

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Hans van den Bogert (hbogert) said : 		#11

wow old bug, but I did experience same behaviour
had to kill trackerd, and restart it before it worked again.

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Hans van den Bogert (hbogert) said : 		#12

I'm sorry didn't realise I was on answers.launchp....

I'll fill in a bug report