69 lines
2.4 KiB
HTML
69 lines
2.4 KiB
HTML
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
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<html>
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<head>
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<title>Recoll howtos</title>
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<meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org">
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<meta name="Author" content="Jean-Francois Dockes">
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<meta name="Description" content=
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"recoll is a simple full-text search system for unix and linux
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based on the powerful and mature xapian engine">
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<meta name="Keywords" content=
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"full text search, desktop search, unix, linux">
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<meta http-equiv="Content-language" content="en">
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<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
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<meta name="robots" content="All,Index,Follow">
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<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="../../styles/style.css">
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</head>
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<body>
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<div class="rightlinks">
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<ul>
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<li><a href="../../index.html">Home</a></li>
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<li><a href="../../doc.html">Documentation</a></li>
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<li><a href="../index.html">Howtos</a></li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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<div class="content">
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<h1>Preventing indexing in a directory</h1>
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<h2>Why would you want to do this ?</h2>
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<p>By default, recollindex (or the indexing thread inside the
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recoll QT user interface) will process your home directories and
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most its subdirectories, at the exception of some well known
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places (thumbnails, beagle and web browser caches, etc.)</p>
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<p>You may want to prevent indexing in some directories where
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you don't expect interesting search results. This will avoid
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polluting the search result lists, speed up indexing times and
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make the index smaller.</p>
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<h2>How to do it</h2>
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<p>There are two ways to block indexing at certain points:
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either by listing specific paths, or by directory name pattern
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matches.</p>
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<ul>
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<li><em>Blocking specific paths</em>: this is controlled by
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the <tt>skippedPaths</tt> variable in the main configuration
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file. You can adjust the value either by editing the file or
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by using the indexing configuration dialog:
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<span class="guimenu">Preferences->Indexing configuration->Global parameters->Skipped paths</span></li>
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<li><em>Using pattern matches</em>: these are listed in the
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<tt>skippedNames</tt> variable in the main configuration file. You
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can adjust the value either by editing the file or by using
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the GUI:
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<span class="guimenu">Preferences->Indexing configuration->Local parameters->Skipped names</span></li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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</body>
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</html>
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