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tracker doesn't follow symlinks

Bug #140017 reported by David Schroeder on 2007-09-17

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	tracker (Ubuntu)	Won't Fix	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

I have several drives in my machine. From each drive, I've symlinked a few folders into my home folder. There seems to be no way to tell trackerd to automatically follow these without manually specifying the files on the drives. This is workable but unfortunate, since from time to time I move the files between drives, and I'm used to other programs being fine with it as long as the symlink is updated.

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Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu) wrote on 2007-09-17:

This is not a bug, it's a feature!

Seriously, this is by design. If tracker would follow symlinks, it could end up in a loop.

Changed in tracker:
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Won't Fix

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ortango (ortango) wrote on 2011-01-21:

there is no way to have tracker follow symlink if they are specifically among the recursively indexed locations? most of my home is built on symlinks - with some apps they are so insanely useful, and then some apps just ignore them leaving people who take advantage of them in the cold.
on one hand it wouldn't matter to just index the actual location but with something like zeitgeist - won't it see the files opened with nautilus through symlinks and files opened with tracker search as different files?

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Uwe Geuder (ubuntulp-ugeuder) wrote on 2015-10-09:

Old issue, but my favorite search engine seems to find this report more easily than this upstreaam report https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726264