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Asked: 2010-06-02 07:15:39 +0800 CST

How to force tracker to re-index a folder?

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I'm using the tracker indexing tool to search for and in files on my Ubuntu 10.10 amd64 system. Having recently added some of files into a single folder I wondered how to force tracker to re-index this folder so I would be able to perform search-queries on these files.

Any ideas? A terminal command would be completely sufficient.

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  1. Best Answer

    This command will make Tracker reindex all its folders:

    tracker-processes -r

    Not exactly what you want, but has helped me quite a few times.

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  2. With recent releases of tracker (mine is 1.12.0), you can force the re-indexing of a given folder simply typing:

    tracker reset -f DIR_NAME

    This causes the indexed information for DIR_NAME to be deleted and indexed again. Ir could be a directory or a file.

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  3. tracker should watch the directory and automatically index any added files - so make sure watching is enabled in the preferences. but generally, my experience with tracker has been that it works inconsistently at best.

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  4. It seems as if @methadata's answer should be correct, but for me, tracker was still not indexing the directory; I also tried tracker index -f DIR_NAME. The only thing that worked for me was to get tracker to completely wipe the index and start indexing again from scratch:

    tracker reset -r     # shut down indexing and erase index
tracker daemon -s    # start indexing again

    Source: tracker docs

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