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Known bugs in current version and older versions:
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Bugs that are listed in an older version section are supposedly fixed in
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later versions. Bugs listed in the topmost section may also exist in older
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versions.
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Latest (1.8.1):
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- This is not really a bug but .beagle really should be included in
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"skippedNames", or you end up indexing the beagle text cache, which is
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not really desirable.
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- Doc bug: the manual states that the query language supports a "mime:"
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switch to filter mime types. There is currently no such thing.
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- The dates shown for email attachments in a result list are the email
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folder modification date. This should be inherited from the parent
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message instead.
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- NEAR crashes: 1.6 has added NEAR searches. Unlike what recoll did
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with PHRASES, stemming expansion is performed on terms inside NEAR
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clauses (except if prevented by a capitalized entry of course). There is
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a bug in Xapian at least up to 0.9.10, where NEAR does not support
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multiple OR subclauses, as would result from a multiple expansion. This
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manifests itself by a 'not implemented' Xapian exception. Workarounds:
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- Prevent expansion of NEAR terms (possibly except one) by
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capitalizing them.
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- Or apply the following patch to xapian 0.9.9 or 0.9.10, inside the
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"api/" directory:
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http://www.recoll.org/xapian/xapNearDistrib.patch
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or fetch the already patched source:
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http://www.recoll.org/xapian/xapian-core-0.9.10-recollNEARpatch.tar.gz
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then recompile, and install.
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I hope that an equivalent fix will make it into xapian at some point (the
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current fix is not completely correct but still handles most useful cases).
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- If you are seeing a delay of a few seconds before the result list
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displays for the first query of a recoll instance, try changing the
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result list font in the query preferences. This is not a recoll problem,
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I don't know the exact cause (I've seen it happen with "Sans Serif" and
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go away with Helvetica or Arial).
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- When a mime type has an external viewer defined, but the actual file is
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compressed (ie: xxx.txt.gz), recoll will try to start the external viewer
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on the compressed file, which will not work in most cases.
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- There are problems which have been reported indexing big mailstores
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(several hundreds of thousands of messages): resulting in a very big
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database and even crashes during indexation.
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- Under some versions of KDE (ie: Fedora FC5 KDE 3.5.4-0.5.fc5), there is a
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problem with the window stacking order. Opening the "browse" file
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selection dialog from the advanced search dialog will stack the latter
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under the main window, possibly making it invisible. This is quite
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probably a Kwin bug, possibly related to
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http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79183 or a correction thereof.
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- Under Solaris, it is necessary to perform initial indexing with the
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recollindex program (the recoll index thread doesn't work for creating
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the database). Don't know the reason. Only idea I have is problem with
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exception handling (recoll catches an exception while trying the
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yest inexistant db).
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1.7.5
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- Debian and Ubuntu: the rclsoff Openoffice filter doesn't work,
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because of an incorrect shell syntax (understood by bash but not sh). To
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fix, you edit /usr[/local]/share/recoll/filters/rclsoff and can change
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the line:
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trap cleanup EXIT SIGHUP SIGQUIT SIGINT SIGTERM
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into:
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trap cleanup EXIT HUP QUIT INT TERM
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or download the updated filter from the filters page:
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http://www.recoll.org/filters/filters.html
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1.7.3
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- Processing will stop on first error while indexing an mbox file. This
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could happen just because an attachment could not be decoded, and can
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cause non-indexing of many messages. The most probable cause of error is
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a missing filter (ie for ms-word files), so the temporary workaround
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would be to install the missing filters. This bug is specific to 1.7 and
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1.6 users need not worry. A correction will be issued very soon.
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- Messages of type multipart/signed are not indexed.
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1.6.2
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- Relatively unfrequent issue with message boundary detection in mbox
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files, could cause miscellaneous problems.
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- Executing an external viewer for a file with single-quotes in the name
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would not work.
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1.5.10
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- If a defaultcharset was set in the configuration file for a subdirectory,
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it would stay in effect for all subsequent files/directories (except if
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explicitely overridden), potentially causing many transcoding errors.
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1.5.[1-7]
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- Dates in result list come from the file's ctimes, which may be confusing
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- Some rare MIME messages with null boundaries can crash the indexer.
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1.5.0
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- Under some conditions, recoll startup and exit could be very slow: the
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simple search history list had serious problems with non-ascii strings,
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whose size sometimes doubled at each program startup/stop.
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1.3.3
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- Several of the external filters did not handle path names with embedded
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spaces (rcluncomp rclsoff rclps rclmedia rcldjvu). This is fixed in 1.4.
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- If your QT installation is built with the QT_NO_STL flag, Recoll will not
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compile. I have a patch for this (will be fixed in the next release),
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contact me if you get the problem. Typical error message:
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main.cpp:160: error: no match for 'operator+=' in 'msg += reason'
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- The 'None of these words' field in the complex search does not work if
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there are no other filled fields (it transforms into an ordinary
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search). Workaround: enter very common term(s) in the 'any of these
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words' field.
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- Indexing cannot currently be conveniently and cleanly stopped when it's
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started. You can kill the process, and keyboard interrupt might work, but
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this may leave the database in a bad state. This is fixed in the upcoming
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release, there is no current workaround.
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1.2.2
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- The preview window is supposed to scroll after loading the document so
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that the first search term is visible. This does not work in many cases.
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- The result list title is not shown for sorted lists
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Notes on older versions:
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- Trouble compiling on some linux systems (Gentoo and Slackware?). There
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existed a quite common issue where the Recoll link will fail trying to
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use a libstdc++.la file. This was due to a problem with the xapian-config
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program. A workaround has been included in the configure script for
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recoll 1.2.2, and the problem should not occur any more.
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- Case-insensitive search should now work in most cases (used to not work
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except for accented ascii).
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- All directories and files with names beginning with a dot were ignored
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by the skippedNames directive in the default recoll.conf file from
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older versions (no indexation of mozilla or thunderbird email !). An
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upgrade will not fix this (it will not modify an existing
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configuration). You need to edit recoll.conf by hand and remove the .*
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from skippedNames.
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