Issue 367: Wont index from root folder on Windows

This sounds to me like the original Issue #278, which is closed, but I might be wrong.

Basically if using the GUI under Preferences- >Index Configuration you set (for example) "C:/" and "D:/" as folders to be indexes then the indexer doesn’t actually index anythng. That is to say creating indexes terminates almost immediately. Picking any actual subfolder however (e.g. "C:/Users" say) does work. Is there any way to work around this? Why can you not specify a root folder to index?

You are right, using a drive root does not work. I’ll add it to the known bugs and it will be fixed in a future release.

Adding directories from the GUI is ennoying. You can edit c:/users/you/appdata/recoll/recoll.conf instead. Add to the topdirs variable, entries with spaces need to be double-quoted, you can break lines between entries with backslashes.

Thanks.

Just to note that adding top level folders via recoll.conf doesn’t work either — not sure whether you mentioned recoll.conf to imply that it would or just as a general remark, but suffice it to say whether you add root level folders via the GUI or via recoll.conf, neither way currently works.

Thanks again!

Yes, what I just meant was that using an editor on recoll.conf could be more convenient than using the GUI which only allows adding one directory at a time.