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I really like the Unity interface. The usability, the look and especially the search. But the search got less and less responsive. In 14.04 I have to wait quiet some time before results appear (semi recent Core i5 with 8GB RAM) - btw: online results are already disabled and videos and music are disabled in the indexing settings.

I have a huge music and a large photo collection which needs no indexing and don't have to apear in the search results, neither does my (not that large) video collection. The only thing I'm interested in is that my installed programs and my other documents are indexed and searched.

Any hints on how to speed it up and remove the unnecessary stuff?

Are there good alternatives? I would love to keep the starter and also the search design, but maybe some other program / adon can be hooked in to use it.

Brutus
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  1. If you're only interested in some lenses, try to How to disable lenses in the Dash

    The for-loop in the next section can also be used to re-create the entire database if you've done a bunch or archiving... (E.G. if you've moved a bunch of music or pictures to DVD, USB hard drive, ...)

  2. If you're not interested in any lenses and only in your programs, you might disable zeitgeist altogether! (This is how I run)

The following line disables the zeitgeist datahub system-wide:

sudo mv /etc/xdg/autostart/zeitgeist-datahub.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/zeitgeist-datahub.desktop-inactive

Now reboot

This line is just to activate sudo for the next couple of minutes:

sudo ls /home

The following lines are to remove the zeitgeist cache for all users

for szUser in /home/* ; do
  if [ -d "$szUser/.local/share/zeitgeist" ] ; then
    echo Removing $szUser/.local/share/zeitgeist
    sudo rm -rf $szUser/.local/share/zeitgeist
  fi
done

To enable again:

for szUser in /home/* ; do
  mkdir $szUser/.local/share/zeitgeist
done
sudo mv /etc/xdg/autostart/zeitgeist-datahub.desktop-inactive /etc/xdg/autostart/zeitgeist-datahub.desktop
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