Issue 215: Recoll reindex at start of session

Recall begins to index every time the session starts. It is annoying and consumes resource at startup

Disable real time indexing. Preferences- >Indexing schedule- > Real time indexing, uncheck "Start indexing daemon"

sorry, but this is not a solution… the solution is do not reindex what is already indexed :)

If you are sure that it is actually reindexing files, and not just walking the file system to check for updated ones, could you please start an incremental indexing, from the command line, just type recollindex in a terminal, and check for Xapian error messages like the following:

If looking at the output is difficult because it’s coming too fast, set up a log file from the GUI indexing parameters section, then exit the GUI, and start the command (if you stay in the GUI, there is a risk that it will erase the log file).

Also, what version are you using ? If you have the above problem, it is supposedly fixed in 1.19.14

Let’s first confirm this, and I’ll explain more.

I use the version 1.19.14p2

this is the log: http://pastebin.com/jV2rNfsi

recollindex calls pdftotext on some files.

Why recollindex updates a lot of files?

I think that your index is corrupted. Please delete it (rm -rf ~/.recoll/xapiandb), and reindex. If you never did something like this since 1.19.13 or earlier, the corruption probably happened at the time, but when it’s there, it does not go away.

Also rcldoc seems to fail, but it’s not too clear why. You could try to execute it by hand: /usr/share/recoll/filters/rcldoc someFile.doc and see what happens

No feedback.

Sorry for the late answer. I deleted the index but with no results. BUT yesterday I updated Dropbox. When it was restarded by the system, then recoll started to reindex. I think Dropbox (and maybe Insync for Google Drive) touchs files….

Do you know if Dropbox uses extended attributes ? This would explain things.

I dont know

Hi, I have perhaps the same problem. I have disabled realtime index, but my computer takes 5min from login to a usable desktop. When I remove recoll completely, things run faster. I woul like to make a complete reinstall of all files recoll installs. I removed ~/.recoll, ar there any other files that I can remove?

thanks /bjorn

If realtime indexing is disabled, recoll can have no influence on your desktop startup. You can verify this by checking that the recollindex process is not running (except when you explictely start it by clicking update/rebuild index).

~/.config/Recoll.org would be the other directory to delete if you want to remove all recoll configuration data. It holds the GUI parameters.

Thanks I will try that /bjorn

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