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Tracker is a semantic data storage for desktop and mobile devices.

Tracker http://projects.gnome.org/tracker (or Meta Tracker) is a personal search tool and storage system that allows you to search and enhance your personal data with the minimum of fuss.

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Why was tracker desktop search removed?

I remember a release when tracker was one of the innovations of Ubuntu. What happened to it?
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What is 'Tracker Search Tool'

In the picture above see the icon of magnifying glass. I didn't have this icon before, It is indexing my files. Any idea what is it, I have maverick installed on 2 machines and both of them now have this icon. When I click on it and search for some…
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How much cache is tracker supposed to use?

Tracker uses a lot of memory/CPU and has at least 22GB of cache on my harddrive. How much cache is tracker supposed to use?
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Do we have a tool that can track file level changes at a user level for a directory?

Do we have a tool that can track file level changes at a user level for a directory? To further add, My requirement is this - This is the directory i would like to track /var/lib/docker/volumes/shared/_data - Any changes to any files inside this…
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How to selectively disable tracker indexing a certain (set of) directories

I often build large projects. An example is a site that is built with Jekyll. The build takes about 20 seconds, and changes thousands of HTML files. The same happens when I build the documentation of some projects. Tracker store picks this up, and…
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