Questions tagged [recoll]

A desktop search tool that provides efficient full text search.

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How do I get statistics about my recoll index?

I recently installed recoll and its Unity lens, and started indexing most of my home drive. Photos, Documents, music, sourcecode, everything. It is still running (no surprise there) and I would like to know how big the index is now. But neither…
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In Recoll on Ubuntu, how do I specify a particular directory to search?

I specify a directory in my /home as /home/wayne/recoll for Recoll to index docs and html; but it indexes all my files and directories under /home/wayne. How can I restrict it please?
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Recoll - how to exclude indexing everything, then I'll add only a couple back in

How do I set Recoll to exclude everything? I will then add a small number of directories. But I mostly want it to NOT index most of the computer. I currently have the default excluded directory in Skipped path: /media And I have 2 folders in Top…
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Effective ways to search in recoll

I have been using recoll for awhile. And I absolutely love it. I have it indexed all my journals, ebooks, pictures, videos and also a wild bunch of pdf's from all over the internet. Topics spanning from movie reviews to computer algorithms and…
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Searching multiple PDF documents with Recoll

On windows, I use Foxit reader's advanced search to look up terms in multiple PDF documents in a directory. I like how flawless and quick it is moving from one document to another and from one search result to another. As I'm moving to Linux I'm…
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In Recoll, how to view the list of files that have been indexed in a specific directory?

please help me finding a solution to the following problem: I have a folder on my W7-NTFS drive with saved webpages files in this folder have been lost, some of the contents of which I have found randomly stored in .chk file format (I think this is…
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How to install Recoll's python:epub helper?

I installed the latest version of Recoll from the ppa because it was claimed it can index epub files. When I select "Show missing helpers" there's "python:epub" in the list. I cannot find it in the software center. I already have the python-recoll…
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How can I move the results of a Recoll query to a folder?

I'd like to know if it's possible to send matching files from Recoll (searches words or strings in the content of several files .pdf .doc, etc) into a folder. Thanks!
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Can I create two Recoll databases, each for different directories?

I have run Recoll which created a database for my data partition on my internal hard drive. The database is stored under my home partition in the same internal hard drive. I now want to run Recoll to create a database for a dicrectory on my external…
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Recoll as gnome search provider

I'd like to use the recoll index as a search provider in gnome 3. That is, instead of opening recoll and entering my search terms, I'd like to hit super, get gnome overview , enter my search terms and get recoll results there. This seems to be…
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Is there a way to search document contents using a Unity Lens in 14.04 Trusty?

In trusty 14.04, the out-of-the-box install gives you a Unity file and folder search which provides relevance-based search for recently used files (through Zeitgeist) augmented with entire filesystem search (through mlocate). However, as far as I…
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Is it possible to use the Unity Dash search features in a different enviornment, such as XFCE?

I have been using the Unity environment on Ubuntu, and although I enjoy the Unity Dash search feature, I want to move away from Unity to the XFCE environment. Is it possible to have the same sort of indexed search/ launcher functionality in XFCE?…
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Is there a way to download additional stemming packages for Recoll?

Recoll's list of languages where stemming is available via Xapian algorithm lacks a language in which most of my documents are written. I searched both in the Recoll manual for ways of downloading more languages as well as on Xapian website, but…
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Duplicate icons of the same application created on Dock with no WM_class found

I followed all the steps in this answer: https://askubuntu.com/a/975230/719469 However when I run xprop WM_CLASS in Terminal and click on my application's window, it gives me: WM_CLASS: not found. What should I do to get a single icon of the app on…
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Ubuntu default docx parser

I've just installed Recoll to index my text files. It works like a charm, but what surprised me is that it was able to index docx by default, while asked to install antiword to index doc files. I know doc and docx have different MIME types but they…
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