Known bugs in current and older versions
- -Bugs that are listed in an older version section are - supposedly fixed in later versions. Bugs listed in the - topmost section may also exist in older versions.
- -Latest (recoll 1.11.4 + xapian 1.0.x)
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- Performing a full index with release 1.11, over a version - created with a much older recoll release may sometimes end - with an error saying "backend doesn't implement metadata". - If this happens, you need to delete the index directory - (typically ~/.recoll/xapiandb/) and restart - indexing. For big indexes, removing the directory preventively - may be a smart move to avoid losing time. - -
- When Recoll is built with qt 4.4.0, the icons in the - result list are all displayed at the top of the page and - garbled. This appears to be a qt bug, fixed in 4.4.1. Use - either qt 4.3.x or 4.4.1 - -
- If the user-chosen result list entry format results in - several paragraphs (in the qt textedit sense), right clicks - will only work inside the first one for each entry. - -
- The "Copy file name" and "Copy URL" entries of the - right-click menus only copy the data to the X11 primary - selection (use middle-button click to paste). This is - probably a mistake, the data should be copied to the - clipboard too (permitting the use of the "Paste" edit menu - entry or Ctrl+V in the target). - -
- When a mime type has an external viewer defined, but the - actual file is compressed (ie: xxx.txt.gz), recoll will try - to start the external viewer on the compressed file, which - will not work in most cases. - -
- NEAR crashes: 1.6 has added NEAR searches. Unlike what
- recoll did with PHRASES, stemming expansion is performed on
- terms inside NEAR clauses (except if prevented by a
- capitalized entry of course). There is a bug in Xapian (all
- versions as far as I know), where NEAR does not support
- multiple OR subclauses, as would result from a multiple
- expansion. This manifests itself by a 'not implemented'
- Xapian exception. Workarounds:
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- Prevent expansion of NEAR terms (possibly except one) by - capitalizing them. - -
- Or apply the following patch to xapian, inside the - "api/" directory: - http://www.recoll.org/xapian/xapNearDistrib-1.0.patch - or fetch the already patched source: - http://www.recoll.org/xapian/xapian-core-1.0.7-recollNEARpatch.tar.gz - then recompile, and install. - -
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- - If you are seeing a delay of a few seconds before the - result list displays for the first query of a recoll - instance, try changing the result list font in the query - preferences. This is not a recoll problem, I don't know the - exact cause (I've seen it happen with "Sans Serif" and go - away with Helvetica or Arial). - -
- Under some versions of KDE (ie: Fedora FC5 KDE - 3.5.4-0.5.fc5), there is a problem with the window stacking - order. Opening the "browse" file selection dialog from the - advanced search dialog will stack the latter under the main - window, possibly making it invisible. This is quite probably - a Kwin bug, possibly related to - http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79183 or a correction - thereof. - -
- Under Solaris, it is necessary to perform initial indexing with the - recollindex program (the recoll index thread doesn't work for creating - the database). Don't know the reason. Only idea I have is problem with - exception handling (recoll catches an exception while trying the - yet inexistant db). -
1.11.1
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- Unicode space characters like - 0x3000, Ideographic space - where not detected inside user entries like the main - interface search entry. Badly parsed searches would retrieve no - results, when the same search entered with ascii space characters - would have succeeded. -
- Spaces were inserted inside CJK strings when building - abstracts for the result list. -
- Accent removal should not be performed for Japanese. -
- When using the query language, an OR part with more than - two terms will swallow preceding AND terms, one for each - additional OR. Ex: (champagne ext:odt OR ext:sxw OR ext:lyx) - will be interpreted as - "champagne OR ext:odt OR ext:sxw OR ext:lyx" - instead of the correct - "champagne AND (ext:odt OR ext:sxw OR ext:lyx)" - Workaround until the fix is issued: add non-existing terms - before the OR part and check the resulting query: - "champagne bogusxyztv ext:odt OR ext:sxw OR ext:lyx" - -
1.10.6
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- If the locale is not utf-8, non-ascii command line
- arguments to recoll and recollq are not converted to utf-8,
- which may prevent, for example, the kde applet from
- working. The workaround is to apply the following one-line
- fix to qtgui/main.cpp, recompile and install recoll:
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- 386c386 - < sSearch->setSearchString(QString::fromUtf8(qstring.c_str())); - --- - > sSearch->setSearchString(QString::fromLocal8Bit(qstring.c_str())); -
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1.10.1
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- A relatively simple error case can cause the indexer to - stop processing an mbox file (forgetting all subsequent - messages). More specifically, this happens when encountering - more than than a few dozen errors while handling - attachments. This is relatively common: for exemple if an - external helper application is missing and multiple - attachments of the affected type are found (ie: multiple - images and no exiftool). Workaround: install the helper - application. -
- The decoding of base-64 data in emails fails in a relatively uncommon - but sometimes encountered case. -
- In a preview window, when walking the search term hits with the - Previous/Next buttons, 'Previous' actually acts as 'Next' (it does work - normally for the local search). -
- Problems in detecting message separators inside Thunderbird mailboxes - (quite probably mainly for messages imported from outlook?). Can lead to - unindexed messages, and even apparently indexer crashes in some cases. -
- File names indexed as terms can sometimes overflow the maximum term - size, halting the indexing. -
- For Phrase/Near searches, only the first term group is highlighted in - preview. -
1.10.0
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- If a filter fails while trying to extract the data from a file, the file - will not be indexed at all (not even the file name). The file - name should be indexed in this case. This happens in particular in the - very common case where the helper application is not installed (ie: - missing Exiftool -> no *.jpg names in the index). - -
- If several query language "ext:" qualifiers are specified, they will be - joined by an AND instead of OR, resulting in no results. Using an - explicit OR doesn't work (actually OR + field names is generally - broken). In some cases, you can use a "type:" qualifier as a workaround. - - -
1.9.x
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- Problems have been reported indexing big mailstores (several hundreds of - thousands of messages): resulting in a very big database and even - crashes. - -
1.8.2
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- Under ubuntu (at least, maybe debian too), the default awk interpreter - (mawk) is ancient, and the recoll pdf input filter does not - work (removes all space characters). This can be solved by installing the - gawk package. - $ apt-get install gawk - $ update-alternatives --set awk /usr/bin/gawk - -
- There are sometimes problems with document deletions: the index can - get in a state where deleted or moved documents are not purged from the - index (the log file says that the doc are deleted, but they aren't - actually). When this happens, the only solution currently is to reindex - from scratch (recollindex -z). This is due to a xapian bug, which is - fixed in xapian 1.0.2, or you can apply the following patch to xapian - 1.0.1 to fix it: - http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/xapian/xapian-delete-document.patch - -
- The dates shown for email attachments in a result list are the email - folder modification date. This should be inherited from the parent - message instead. - -
- There are a few problems in the qt4 version of recoll: -
- Some accelerators (esc-spc, ctl-arrow) do not work, neither do - copy/paste between the result list and preview windows and x11 - applications. -
- The qt4 q3textedit::find() method is extremely slow, so that - positionning to first search term in Recoll preview has been disabled, - and the application will sometimes appear to be looping when using the - find feature in the preview window (it's not looping, it's searching...) - -
1.8.1
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- This is not really a bug but .beagle really should be included in - "skippedNames", or you end up indexing the beagle text cache, which is - not really desirable. -
- Doc bug: the manual states that the query language supports a "mime:" - switch to filter mime types. There is currently no such thing. - - -
1.7.5
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- Debian and Ubuntu: the rclsoff Openoffice filter doesn't work, - because of an incorrect shell syntax (understood by bash but not sh). To - fix, you edit /usr[/local]/share/recoll/filters/rclsoff and can change - the line: - trap cleanup EXIT SIGHUP SIGQUIT SIGINT SIGTERM - into: - trap cleanup EXIT HUP QUIT INT TERM - or download the updated filter from the filters page: - http://www.recoll.org/filters/filters.html - -
1.7.3
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- Processing will stop on first error while indexing an mbox file. This - could happen just because an attachment could not be decoded, and can - cause non-indexing of many messages. The most probable cause of error is - a missing filter (ie for ms-word files), so the temporary workaround - would be to install the missing filters. This bug is specific to 1.7 and - 1.6 users need not worry. A correction will be issued very soon. -
- Messages of type multipart/signed are not indexed. - -
1.6.2
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- Relatively unfrequent issue with message boundary detection in mbox - files, could cause miscellaneous problems. -
- Executing an external viewer for a file with single-quotes in the name - would not work. - -
1.5.10
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- If a defaultcharset was set in the configuration file for a subdirectory, - it would stay in effect for all subsequent files/directories (except if - explicitely overridden), potentially causing many transcoding errors. - -
1.5.[1-7]
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- Dates in result list come from the file's ctimes, which may be confusing -
- Some rare MIME messages with null boundaries can crash the indexer. - -
1.5.0
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- Under some conditions, recoll startup and exit could be very slow: the - simple search history list had serious problems with non-ascii strings, - whose size sometimes doubled at each program startup/stop. - -
1.3.3
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- Several of the external filters did not handle path names with embedded - spaces (rcluncomp rclsoff rclps rclmedia rcldjvu). This is fixed in 1.4. - -
- If your QT installation is built with the QT_NO_STL flag, Recoll will not - compile. I have a patch for this (will be fixed in the next release), - contact me if you get the problem. Typical error message: - main.cpp:160: error: no match for 'operator+=' in 'msg += reason' - -
- The 'None of these words' field in the complex search does not work if - there are no other filled fields (it transforms into an ordinary - search). Workaround: enter very common term(s) in the 'any of these - words' field. - -
- Indexing cannot currently be conveniently and cleanly - stopped when it's started. You can kill the process, and - keyboard interrupt might work, but this may leave the - database in a bad state. This is fixed in the upcoming - release, there is no current workaround. -
1.2.2
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- The preview window is supposed to scroll after loading the document so - that the first search term is visible. This does not work in many cases. -
- The result list title is not shown for sorted lists - - Notes on older versions: -
- Trouble compiling on some linux systems (Gentoo and Slackware?). There - existed a quite common issue where the Recoll link will fail trying to - use a libstdc++.la file. This was due to a problem with the xapian-config - program. A workaround has been included in the configure script for - recoll 1.2.2, and the problem should not occur any more. - -
- Case-insensitive search should now work in most cases - (used to not work except for accented ascii). - -
- All directories and files with names beginning with a dot were ignored - by the skippedNames directive in the default recoll.conf file from - older versions (no indexing of mozilla or thunderbird email !). An - upgrade will not fix this (it will not modify an existing - configuration). You need to edit recoll.conf by hand and remove the .* - from skippedNames. - -