Installing over an older version and other notes
Note
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Ubuntu commands installed as snap packages can’t create arbitrary
files under /tmp. This is for example the case by default for pdftk which
is used by Recoll to extract PDF attachments. For best results, set TMPDIR
to a location which belongs to you (e.g. inside your home, with something
like export TMPDIR=~/tmp in your shell startup script). Recoll could
conceivably work around the problem all by itself, but I find it in bad
taste to create temporary files in an arbitrary location inside your home.
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1.20-32 indexes are fully backward compatible. No need to reindex when upgrading.
Always reset the index if you do not know by which version it was created
(e.g.: you’re not sure it’s at least 1.18). The best method is to quit all
Recoll programs and delete the index directory
(rm -rf ~/.recoll/xapiandb
), then start recoll
or recollindex
.
recollindex -z
will do the same in most, but not all, cases. It’s better
to use the rm
method, which will also ensure that no debris from
older releases remain (e.g.: old stemming files which are not used any
more).
On Windows, the index is located by default in
C:/Users/[me]/AppData/Local/Recoll/xapiandb
Case/diacritics sensitivity is off by default. It can be turned on only by editing recoll.conf ( see the manual). If you do so, you must then reset the index.
Changes in Recoll 1.32
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GUI: added a collapsible side pane for quick filtering on dates or directories.
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Windows: real time indexing.
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Showing duplicates now uses a spreadsheet like the result table for easy access to the duplicate files.
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Fixed the temporary copy open dialog (again!).
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The default mimeview and mimeconf configuration files were separated into generic and system-specific parts to avoid update errors (no consequences for users).
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Renamed all Python input handler with a .py extension. This is relied on on Windows rather than listing an explicit python interpreter.
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Added %l specification to viewer definitions for opening at a specific line.
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Misc small bug fixes.
Minor releases at a glance
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1.32.1
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GUI side panel filters: make sure the filter is applied even if set before the query.
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GUI side panel directory filter: compute the tree from the index, not the file system, to allow filtering data from external indexes. Update the tree when an indexing completes.
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Implement whole UI scaling factor (fonts only, no icons).
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Orgmode: add orgmodesubdocs configuration variable to decide if we index whole files or create subdocuments for nodes. Also index text before the first heading.
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GUI: fix path translation for importing an index from Windows.
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Windows: fix RECOLL_EXTRA_DBS support.
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