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How to make faster first search at Unity-Dash? Way slower than second one

After a reboot, the first search using Unity Dash will be slower (15 sec) than the second search (seems instant), on my system at least. I guess this is because file index is cleared after a reboot and recreated as soon as first Unity Dash search is…
Esamo
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What exactly does Zeitgeist index?

I am not clear on this. Does Zeitgeist index the contents of my document so searches are more relevant? Or is Zeitgeist only searching the name/extension of my documents?
Dustin
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How to index a pdf document?

I am reading a PDF document in Ubuntu 11.04 using the default "Document Viewer". The document is more than 500 pages and it takes a while to complete a "Find ..." for a particular text. Is there a way to index the PDF documents on the above…
Praveen Sripati
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How to stop a file or folder from being indexed in GNOME?

I am running Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 with GNOME 3.18, and I would like to know if I can do any of the following and if so how: Make it so that a folder is not indexed but leave its contents indexable (so that if I search for that folder's name in my…
user364819
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Does Calibre support Full Text Indexing / Search?

Calibre has tons of plugins, but what I really miss is full text search for all my books (mainly pdf and DJVU). Is this implemented, is there a plugin available? I can only find feature requests that are years old and unfixed launchpad bugs. If full…
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How to force tracker to re-index a folder?

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…
ubuntudroid
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How do I disable file indexing?

How can I disable file indexing in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
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Zeitgeist does not index folders in NTFS partition

I am using Synapse + Unity Dash for searching and it seems that neither of these can index folders I've accessed in my NTFS partition. I believe this is because Zeitgeist does not index folders, and locate (which Synapse uses, I believe) does not…
Nemo
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What's the best way to search my file system on ubuntu with instant results?

What's the best way to search my file system on ubuntu and get results almost instantly? I have used catfish , tracker and the usual search tool provided with ubuntu. Tracker finds nothing, ubuntu search tool is too slow and catfish most of the…
Nabil
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Indexing File Contents

People seem to have already asked about indexing file system: What options are there for indexing my filesystem? What are the alternatives to OS X's Spotlight? but I want to actually just index a certain working directory and be able to do that…
Rafid
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apache won't index folder from another mount

I'm trying to enable directory listing for a folder outside the web root, from a different local ext4 mount that uses Basic Authentication, but I'm getting an empty list and no logged errors. What's strange is that if I put in the known location of…
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Baloo creates 64GB index, takes half my memory and 25% CPU

On 19.04 under gnome, baloo creates a 64GB index, takes half my 16GB memory and 25% CPU. After uninstalling baloo following baloo_file_extractor in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS taking up a lot of memory the problem goes away. I still would like to…
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What options are there for indexing my filesystem?

Possible Duplicate: Does Ubuntu have an alternative to OS X's Spotlight? Wondering what people are using to index and search their file systems. I'm looking for something with low resource usage, but with capability of indexing a large number of…
jaminday
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Remove array of entries from another array

I've got 2 arrays a=(1,2,3,4,5) b=(2,4) the output should be c=(1,3,5) (wich should be the result of a-b) I've tried using unset a[${b}] any ideas? what I have working now is a loop that runs trough 700,000 iterations
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Force Unity Dash to index all files on Home

Not all files on my home directory can be found via Dash, can I force Dash to index all files so I can search for any files in any depth via Dash?
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