Re: Beagle/Kerry

[Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <torquil@gmail.com>]

Wim De Smet wrote:
> On 2/12/07, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <torquil@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I want to do fulltext searching in my archive of PDF files using beagle
> > with the kerry frontend (with Debian Sid). But it seems that my PDFs are
> > not indexed at all. All hits are for words contained in the PDF 
> > filenames.
> >
> > I have disabled all but the "IndexingService" and "Files" backends using
> > the kerry frontend, because I think the others have nothing to do with
> > PDF indexing. However, I was not able to find out what "IndexingService"
> > and "Files" really mean.
>
> Files crawls your files. So that's the one you need. It likely needs
> help from the IndexingService to create indices though (I'm not sure
> about this) so you best keep those two enabled. Strangely enough I
> just tried it and it could only find my pdf's at first if I explicitly
> told it to by saying ext:pdf on the input line. After that it found
> them on any search. You might want to try that. Also, are you sure
> your filesystem is mounted with user_xatrr options?
>
> greets,
> Wim

It's working for me now. I fiddled around a bit, but now I am back the 
the same settings as before. It took quite a while for beagle to build 
up its index, maybe that was the reason I didn't get any hits before. I 
have had user_xattr enabled all along. Btw, ext:pdf works as it should, 
by only showing pdf hits. Without it I get other file types aswell.

Best regards,
Torquil M. Sørensen