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A desktop search tool that provides efficient full text search.

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How do I get statistics about my recoll index?

I recently installed recoll and its Unity lens, and started indexing most of my home drive. Photos, Documents, music, sourcecode, everything. It is still running (no surprise there) and I would like to know how big the index is now. But neither…
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In Recoll on Ubuntu, how do I specify a particular directory to search?

I specify a directory in my /home as /home/wayne/recoll for Recoll to index docs and html; but it indexes all my files and directories under /home/wayne. How can I restrict it please?
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Recoll - how to exclude indexing everything, then I'll add only a couple back in

How do I set Recoll to exclude everything? I will then add a small number of directories. But I mostly want it to NOT index most of the computer. I currently have the default excluded directory in Skipped path: /media And I have 2 folders in Top…
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Effective ways to search in recoll

I have been using recoll for awhile. And I absolutely love it. I have it indexed all my journals, ebooks, pictures, videos and also a wild bunch of pdf's from all over the internet. Topics spanning from movie reviews to computer algorithms and…
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Searching multiple PDF documents with Recoll

On windows, I use Foxit reader's advanced search to look up terms in multiple PDF documents in a directory. I like how flawless and quick it is moving from one document to another and from one search result to another. As I'm moving to Linux I'm…
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In Recoll, how to view the list of files that have been indexed in a specific directory?

please help me finding a solution to the following problem: I have a folder on my W7-NTFS drive with saved webpages files in this folder have been lost, some of the contents of which I have found randomly stored in .chk file format (I think this is…
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How to install Recoll's python:epub helper?

I installed the latest version of Recoll from the ppa because it was claimed it can index epub files. When I select "Show missing helpers" there's "python:epub" in the list. I cannot find it in the software center. I already have the python-recoll…
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How can I move the results of a Recoll query to a folder?

I'd like to know if it's possible to send matching files from Recoll (searches words or strings in the content of several files .pdf .doc, etc) into a folder. Thanks!
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Can I create two Recoll databases, each for different directories?

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…
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Recoll as gnome search provider

I'd like to use the recoll index as a search provider in gnome 3. That is, instead of opening recoll and entering my search terms, I'd like to hit super, get gnome overview, enter my search terms and get recoll results there. This seems to be…
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Is there a way to search document contents using a Unity Lens in 14.04 Trusty?

In trusty 14.04, the out-of-the-box install gives you a Unity file and folder search which provides relevance-based search for recently used files (through Zeitgeist) augmented with entire filesystem search (through mlocate). However, as far as I…
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Is it possible to use the Unity Dash search features in a different enviornment, such as XFCE?

I have been using the Unity environment on Ubuntu, and although I enjoy the Unity Dash search feature, I want to move away from Unity to the XFCE environment. Is it possible to have the same sort of indexed search/ launcher functionality in XFCE?…
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Is there a way to download additional stemming packages for Recoll?

Recoll's list of languages where stemming is available via Xapian algorithm lacks a language in which most of my documents are written. I searched both in the Recoll manual for ways of downloading more languages as well as on Xapian website, but…
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Duplicate icons of the same application created on Dock with no WM_class found

I followed all the steps in this answer: https://askubuntu.com/a/975230/719469 However when I run xprop WM_CLASS in Terminal and click on my application's window, it gives me: WM_CLASS: not found. What should I do to get a single icon of the app…
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Ubuntu default docx parser

I've just installed Recoll to index my text files. It works like a charm, but what surprised me is that it was able to index docx by default, while asked to install antiword to index doc files. I know doc and docx have different MIME types but they…
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