what do you use tracker for?

[Reindl Harald]

if you type "gnome tracker" in google it leads you
to https://wiki.gnome.org/Tracker

besides my question why people do not use search
engines: nobody *needs* all this indexing crap
for his daily workload

Am 04.07.2013 21:04, schrieb D. Hugh Redelmeier:
> Do you use tracker?  Can you give examples of how you've used it
> and if you find it useful?
> 
> Is there a useful guide to exploiting tracker?
> 
> 
> ==== background / war story
> 
> I've been oblivious to tracker.  I must have had it for some time, but
> it hasn't crashed so it didn't come to my attention.
> 
> It has come to my attention now because it has filled my home
> partition.  It was taking almost half a gigabyte.
> 
> Anxious to throw stuff overboard from my 0-bytes-free /home, I deleted
> the Firefox cache (politely via Firecox Edit: Preferences: Advanced:
> Network:  Cached Web Content: Clear Now).  That dealt with the second
> largest space-hog (after tracker).
> 
> I then tried to find a way to get useful information out of tracker.
> It meant installing a bunch of packages that seemed to be
> tracker-related.  I then ran Desktop Search.  I couldn't get it to
> find anything useful.  It couldn't even do what locate could do.
> 
> Oh, and the ~.cache/tracker directory shrank a lot while I was doing
> this.  To the point that it isn't a problem (22 megabytes).  Could it
> be that it was tracking the Firefox cache and when I got rid of that,
> the index shrank?
> 
> (I used fedup to upgrade from Feora 18 to 19 overnight.  It was after
> this that I had a full /home (it wasn't full when I first booted after
> the upgrade, but it was down to a quarter gigabyte of free space). I
> wonder if this is related.)

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