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= Recoll on Windows
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Jean-Francois Dockes <jf at dockes.org>
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image:recoll-windows10-thumb.png[link="recoll-windows10.png"]
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Recoll for Windows was built on Windows 7, and tried on Windows 7 and
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10. It now seems quite stable (12 November 2015)
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Recoll is free and licensed under the GPL. You will be asked to accept the
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license during the installation. For a regular user, and in a nutshell, the
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license means that you are free to do what you want with the program (use,
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copy, share, etc.). If you are a developper and intend to modify and
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distribute the program, you probably know the GPL. Else you should read it.
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I would very much like to get some feedback from actual Windows users (I am
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only a visitor to Windows...). Is this useful at all ? What would make it
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more useful ? You can use the Disqus comments section at the bottom of this
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page, send an email, or use the
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https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/issues[BitBucket Recoll issues tracker].
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NOTE: Especially, I would very much like information about system
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compatibility. It seems that Recoll does not work on Windows XP, and there is
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little I can do about it. I know that it runs on Windows 7 32 bits, and
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Windows 10 64 bits (my two Virtualbox instances). I have a report that the
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installer crashes on Windows 7 64 bits, but I would really like more data
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points. Please send me news of your success or failure.
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Procedure:
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- Download the Recoll setup file from the
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http://www.recoll.org/windows/recoll-setup-1.22.0-20160317.exe[Recoll
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web site], or (probably faster) from
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https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/downloads/recoll-setup-1.22.0-20160317.exe[BitBucket].
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- Execute the setup file. This is a vanilla installer generated by Inno
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Setup, and it will ask the usual questions. If you have no administrative
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rights, take care to select a target directory where you can write.
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- Download and install
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https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.10/python-2.7.10.msi[Python
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2.7.10].
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*_On the `Customize installation` screen, select "Add python.exe to Path"_*
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- Optional: download and install the 7-zip program from
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http://www.7-zip.org/. This is only useful if you need to index files
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compressed with Unix methods (not needed for zip files).
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- Start recoll. It will ask if you want to customize the configuration.
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The default is to index the content of your user directory. Then start
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indexing. This can take some time.
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The default result list font is particularly ugly. Change it from
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`Preferences->GUI Configuration->Result List->Result List Font`
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For those of you who would like to build themselves and possibly work on
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improving the Windows version, the link:recoll-mingw.html[build instructions].
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== Recoll Windows tips and tricks
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(not much for now...)
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When filtering the search with a `dir:` clause, an absolute path
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should be specified as `/c/mydir` instead of `c:/mydir`
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== Known problems:
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- There is no real-time or scheduled indexing as on Linux. For now, you
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create and update the index by using the `File` menu (or executing
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`recollindex.exe` from a command window).
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Changes in 20160317
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- Small change to the setup script so that administrative rights are not
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required.
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Changes/fixes in 20160129
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- Changed the method used for checking that index data is up to date with
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documents. This will impose a re-indexing of all data, but it was
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necessary because the previous method was incorrect.
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- Fixed crash which occured after changing some configuration parameters.
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- Warn when editing a temporary copy of a document (e.g. a temp file
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extracted from a zip archive.
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Changes in 20151202
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- Fixed mbox parsing. This was getting the message separators completely
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wrong, and taking a lot of time to do it. This should be especially
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welcome by Thunderbird users.
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- Fixed email attachement processing. A fault in the code which saved
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attachment data to disk for further processing resulted in a practical
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fuzzing experiment on the input processors. Especially, frequent crashes
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in the image tag extractor caused very ennoying Windows popups about
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a Python error.
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Fixed in 20151115 and later
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- A relatively rare crash which seemed to occur mostly on some email
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messages
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- Forgotten MIME settings for .cs, .js and .css
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Fixed in 20151112 and later
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- Forgotten dll prevents the unrtf program to work, so no rtf indexing.
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Fixed in 20151109 (hopefully?)
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- The GUI sometimes crashes when you click `Preview` or `Open`. This does
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not occur often, and usually for one of the first tries after starting
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the program. Don't despair. This seems to be fixed in the latest version
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(20151109), but I am not 100% certain that it is gone.
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