Unknown reporter writes
Installed recoll and had it create index of my home directory.
Noticed all items in my bin directory got skipped.
Removed .recoll and ran
recollindex -f
Still skipped my bin directory.
medoc writes
Yes, you’re right "bin" is in the skippedNames list. You can remove the entry inside the GUI index configuration/local parameters section.
I’ll remove it from the list for the next release, searching in bin/ dirs can be useful for search by name or even shell-scripts.
mmcgillis writes
The issue to me with this is not that bin was in the skippedNames list which it was but that according to the documentation for -f it should ignore those settings.
#!man
recollindex -i will index individual files into the database. The stem
expansion and aspell databases will not be updated. The skippedPaths
and skippedNames configuration variables will be used, so that some
files may be skipped. You can tell recollindex to ignore skippedPaths
and skippedNames by setting the -f option. This allows fully custom
file selection for a given subtree, for which you would add the top
directory to skippedPaths, and use any custom tool to generate the file
list (ie: a tool from a source code control system).