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= Trying out 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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The Windows port of Recoll has reached a point where it can be tested. At
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least, it will not break your system, and it does not crash too often.
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It was built on Windows 7, and tried on Windows 7 and 10.
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I would be very eager to get some feedback from some actual Windows user
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(I am only a visitor to Windows...). Is this useful at all ? What would
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make it more useful ?
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There is no installer for the moment, the program and its auxiliary files
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are stored in a Zip file. This is quite big, because it contains a good
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part of the Qt 5.5.0 dlls (I can't produce a static build because of WebKit).
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The Zip creates a `recoll` directory. As far as I know, there is no
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assumption where it should reside, I use `c:/recoll`, but anywhere
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else should be ok.
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You can get the Zip file either from the
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http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/windows/[download directory on
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lesbonscomptes] or from
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https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/downloads/[the one on bitbucket].
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Besides extracting the Zip, you need to:
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- Download and install Python 2.7 from
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https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-2710/. Most Recoll data
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extraction filters have at least a Python part, so you will not be able
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to do much without this.
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- Download and install the 7-zip program from http://www.7-zip.org/. This
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is only useful if you need to index compressed files.
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- Update your PATH variable with the locations of the `python` and `7z`
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executables.
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* From Windows Explorer, click `Computer` in the left pane, then
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`System Properties` from the top, then `Avanced System Settings` from
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the left pane, then `Environment Variables` at the bottom of the
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popup.
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* Check that the locations for `python` (`C:\Python27`), and `7z`
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(`C:\Program Files\7-Zip`) are either in the User or System PATH
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variable. If they are not in there already , update or create the user
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PATH and add them as: `C:\Python27;C:\Program Files\7-Zip` (use a
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semi-colon as separator).
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Windows tricks:
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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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- 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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- 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.
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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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- I'm quite convinced that there are still problems with file path case
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insensitivity. The best approach when setting up the config is
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to use the exact case for now.
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- I'll add the others here as they are found ...
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