4

I have run Recoll which created a database for my data partition on my internal hard drive. The database is stored under my home partition in the same internal hard drive.

I now want to run Recoll to create a database for a dicrectory on my external hard drive, and store this new database on that external hard drive, because my internal hard drive doesn't have enough space to hold the new database. I was wondering how to do that in Recoll?

Note: my current Recoll was installed from software center of Ubuntu 12.04.

Thanks!

Glutanimate
  • 21,763
Tim
  • 26,107

2 Answers2

4

Expanding answer from @Glutanimate - I will provide example of the solution based on creating different directories with recoll configuration for multiple indexes. Let's assume that we want to have "it books" and "health books" indexed separately.

  1. First create directories for each index:

    $ mkdir -p /path/to/the/index/.recoll_it
$ mkdir -p /path/to/the/index/.recoll_health

  2. Then launch recoll with option '-c' to indicate directory with configuration you would like to be loaded when recoll GUI will be launched, e.g.:

    $ recoll -c /path/to/the/index/.recoll_it

  3. When recoll GUI is open, go to Preferences menu and select index configuration where you can indicate path to the directory you would like to have indexed with this configuration (in this example directory with collection of it books).

  4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 with the other configuration you might want to have.

Every time you want to use recoll with specific index you need to call recoll with option -c to indicate which index recoll have to load (as in step 2).

izkeros
  • 181
1

This might be a bit late but you will find extensive information on working with multiple indexes in Recoll's documentation and wiki:

Glutanimate
  • 21,763