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Vivek
Asked: 2011-11-24 22:15:39 +0800 CST

Activity log manager is not preventing Zeitgeist from logging files

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I am running Gnome Shell and I do not like Zeitgeist indexing all my files. This makes the overview search in gnome-shell very slow. I do not want the overview to search recent files, so I installed activity log manager to prevent zeitgeist's logging activity. I configured the log manager as below.

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But even after adding every folder, the files keep appearing in the overview under Recent Items. Is there any other software or tweak which will instruct zeitgeist to search only applications installed in my system and not my recent files.

11.10

3 Answers

  1. As far as I understand the Recent Items have nothing to do with Zeitgeist.

    You could try the instructions made in the answer of this question.

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  2. I removed and re-installed Zeitgeist Activity Log Manager. This now appears to be working, but there are still images / documents in Dash history that should have been excluded.

    zeitgeist-daemon --quit

sudo apt-get purge activity-log-manager 
sudo apt-get install activity-log-manager

zeitgeist-daemon -r &

    I think Unity may auto-start zeitgeist-daemon, and that the blacklists' stopped working intermittently (after updates?) over the last two walso eeks.

    I also tried Zeitgeist Activity Journal, and manually removed entries that should not have been logged (for last 2 weeks). The software is quite cumbersome, but will hopefully improve soon.

    sudo apt-get install gnome-activity-journal

(loads as: 'Activity Journal')

    hint: in ThumbView mode - use drop-down button (top-right), enable Erase Mode

    This may have fixed issue, but I have NOT identifies any root-cause ..

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  3. Use GTK+ Recent Files Scrubber for deleting things appearing in gtk-open-dialogues via blacklists.

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