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This document introduces full text search notions and describes the installation and use of the Recoll application. It is updated for Recoll 1.33.
Recoll was for a long time dedicated to Unix-like systems. It
was only lately (2015) ported to MS-Windows. Many references in
this manual, especially file locations, are specific to Unix, and not valid on Windows, where
some described features are also not available. The manual will be progressively
updated. Until this happens, on Windows, most references to shared files can be translated by
looking under the Recoll installation directory (Typically C:/Program
Files (x86)/Recoll
). Especially, anything referenced
inside /usr/share
in this document will be found in
the Share
subdirectory of the installation). The user configuration is
stored by default under AppData/Local/Recoll
inside the user directory,
along with the index itself.