How to blacklist directories from being indexed by tracker? [answered]

answered 2014-06-23 18:18:16 +0300

magullo
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updated 2015-06-23 14:09:37 +0300

Hi all, I was digging for a solution to this problem and looking at gsettings I saw that is possible to blacklist folders by simply putting a file named "backup.metadata" in it:

[nemo@Jolla 1311-1208]$ gsettings list-recursively
...
     org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files ignored-directories-with-content [.nomedia']
...

So I placed this file with:

touch .nomedia

in the folder I do not want to index (osmand map and voice data in my example) and touched the folder so that tracker index it again.

This solution seems to work fine.

Edit: changed backup.medatada with .nomedia

answered 2014-03-18 21:02:47 +0300

corsarium
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updated 2014-03-19 03:09:03 +0300

Hi everybody im currently using this script to include/exclude some folders by the tracker. What i did is modify the script /usr/bin/tracker-sd-indexing.sh called during the boot process, but it can be executed at anytime.

The original file

#!/bin/bash

DEF_UID=$(grep "^UID_MIN" /etc/login.defs |  tr -s " " | cut -d " " -f2)

if [ -b /dev/sdcard  ]
then
        if [ "$(gsettings get org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files index-removable-devices)" = "false" ]
        then
                gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files index-removable-devices true
        fi

        if [ "$(gsettings get org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files index-recursive-directories | grep extSdCard)" = "" ]
        then
                gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files index-recursive-directories "['&DESKTOP', '&DOCUMENTS', '&DOWNLOAD', '&MUSIC', '&PICTURES', '&VIDEOS', '/run/user/$DEF_UID/media/sdcard']"
        fi
fi

systemctl --user restart tracker-miner-fs.service

My script.

First of all create 2 files:

• /home/nemo/.config/tracker/toMount
• /home/nemo/.config/tracker/toExclude

toMount file

toMountArray="/include/path"

toExclude

toExcludeArray="/excluded/path"

Backup /usr/bin/tracker-sd-indexing.sh

cp  /usr/bin/tracker-sd-indexing.sh  /usr/bin/tracker-sd-indexing.sh_vanilla

Edit /usr/bin/tracker-sd-indexing.sh and add the following content

#!/bin/bash

DEF_UID=`grep "^UID_MIN" /etc/login.defs |  tr -s " " | cut -d " " -f2`
user=`egrep "^[[:alpha:]]+:[[:alpha:]]+:${DEF_UID}" /etc/passwd  | cut -f1 -d ":"`


#add directories to be exclude or include by indexer
toMountFile=/home/$user/.config/tracker/toMount
toExcludeFile=/home/$user/.config/tracker/toExclude


################
#Check mounted and exclude propeties file
toMountFlag=0
toExcludeFlag=0

#if exist and are correct flags = 1
[ -f $toMountFile ]   && . $toMountFile   && toMountFlag=1 
[ -f $toExcludeFile ] && . $toExcludeFile && toExcludeFlag=1 

################
#Check if sdcard is mounted
sdCardFlag=1
sdCardMountPoint=""

grep "^/dev/mmcblk1" /proc/mounts >/dev/null && sdCardFlag=1 




defaults="'&DOWNLOAD', '&MUSIC', '&PICTURES', '&VIDEOS'"


if [ $sdCardFlag -eq 1  ];then
    echo "SD"
    sdCardMountPoint=`grep "^/dev/mmcblk1" /proc/mounts | awk '{print $2}'`

    #Set to true to enable indexing mounted directories for removable devices.
    if [ "$(gsettings get org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files index-removable-devices)" = "false" ];then
        echo "gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files index-removable-devices true"
        gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files index-removable-devices true
    fi

    #add the toMount array at the end
    if [ $toMountFlag -eq 1 ]; then

        #toMountArray is defined on toMountFile
        if [ -z "$toMountArray" ]; then
            echo "gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files index-recursive-directories \"[${defaults}, '${sdCardMountPoint}']\""
            gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files index-recursive-directories "[${defaults}, '${sdCardMountPoint}']"
        else

            toMountString=""
            for i in $toMountArray; do
                toMountString=${toMountString}"'${i}',"
            done

            echo "gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files index-recursive-directories \"[${defaults}, '${sdCardMountPoint}', ${toMountString%?}]\""
            gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files index-recursive-directories "[${defaults}, '${sdCardMountPoint}', ${toMountString%''}]"
        fi
    fi
else
    echo "!SD"
    #add the toMount array at the end
    if [ $toMountFlag -eq 1 ]; then

        #toMountArray is defined on toMountFile
        if [ -z "$toMountArray" ]; then
            echo "gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files index-recursive-directories \"[${defaults}\""
            #gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files index-recursive-directories "[${defaults}]"
        else

            toMountString=""
            for i in $toMountArray; do
                toMountString=${toMountString}"'${i}',"
            done

            echo "gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files index-recursive-directories \"[${defaults} ${toMountString%?}]\""
            gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files index-recursive-directories "[${defaults} ${toMountString%?}]"
        fi
    fi
fi

#add the toexclude array at the end
if [ $toExcludeFlag -eq 1 ]; then

  if [ ! -z "$toExcludeArray" ]; then
    toExcludeString=""
    for i in $toExcludeArray; do
        toExcludeString=${toExcludeString}"'${i}',"
    done
    echo "gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files ignored-directories \"[${toExcludeString%?}]\""
    gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files ignored-directories "[${toExcludeString%?}]"
  fi
fi

echo "systemctl --user restart tracker-miner-fs.service"
systemctl --user restart tracker-miner-fs.service