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muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon

http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 04 Sep 2008, 10:33 Post subject:

Wheres the download link? Did you package it up?
Just wondering, Looks good Smile

ttuuxxx

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon

I just got distracted by something or other. For a qt3-based version, of the previous recoll release, it's available here

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon

Uploaded v1.11.0.

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon

Uploaded v1.12.0.

shankargopal · Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 295

I gather from this that the indexes that Recoll makes are pretty huge. Before I install and try it out, just wanted to check if anyone else has any experience of how big a typical index is? It seems like a great tool, but afraid of overwhelming my pup_save...

Thanks a lot for compiling this, muggins!

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon

shankargopal,

Of the top of my head I can't recall the size of the saved index, but it's a simple matter, if you're worried of swamping you're pup_save.2fs file, to either save to /mnt/home, or re-direct the index file saved in /root, via a symlink, to /mnt/home.

shankargopal · Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 295

Yes, I was planning to do that, but a large index would swamp pretty much all my storage (I use a flash drive based Puppy...)

However that seems unavoidable, because this in fact clearly says that a typical Xapian index is as large as the material being indexed... oh well... maybe I should purchase a larger pen drive Smile

. Though frankly having an index that large doesn't seem too good an idea for a search engine.

shankargopal · Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 295

Ok, I did manage to get a larger flash drive (by luck), so running recoll on it. It's not as bad as it seems - I have it indexing a file store of around 300 MB (mostly documents), and the index is 142 MB in size.

Note though that to really use Recoll's full functionality, you need to install additional helper tools - I've posted dotpets for them here. Without them, Recoll will only index the file names of most documents, which is not much use. If you install those three dotpets, the only missing helper for Recoll appears to be a Perl module for getting metadata from images.

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon

Uploaded v1.12.4.

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon

Uploaded v1.13.02.