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Originally Posted by business_kid
Maybe
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rm -rf $HOME/.cache/tracker
ln -s /dev/null $HOME/.cache/tracker
What might break? - whatever bit of gnome you are using :-D.
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About the only thing that I use that depends on it (maybe) would be Evolution. And that's only when Thunderbird acts up. Sometimes T'bird doesn't start up without spinning its wheels while scanning folders and I kill it and fire up Evolution so I can get into my email quickly. I never use the email search functions as I find it easy enough to grep within the Maildir directly. But if Evolution is what started the disk space consumption to take place then it's goodbye Evolution.
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Yes, it's a behemoth but it has been solved before
All from the first page of google search on "disable gnome tracker"
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Sorry about that. I did a search on LQ but the first couple of screens of results didn't seem to fit the bill. (Guess my search criteria weren't specific enough.)
I stumbled on[*] the "tracker-preferences" utility and disabled "tracking" in all the folders that had been checked and disabled most cases where it might try and resume filling up my "/home" filesystem. If it tries now, it'll, hopefully, take longer for it to eat up all available disk space. There didn't appear to be a "never, ever do this" switch, though. Clever as it is, the "/dev/null" workaround doesn't deal with tracker needlessly eating up the CPU when sending all the data to the bit bucket. I've made a mental note to make a list of any old Gnome utilities that I've grown used to during my use of the older Gnome desktop and switching to the KDE equivalents. Come next OS upgrade time, I'll just leave anything Gnome-related out the installation process.
First Beagle, then Akonadi, and now Tracker. You'd think someone would figure out that there's a fair number of users out there that don't want any of those things and make it "opt-in".
Thanks for the URLs. I have some "leisure" reading to do.
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Rick
[*] -- Frustratingly, "tracker" doesn't have a manpage. (Neither does "akonadi" for that matter.) Luckily, I eventually got around to "apropos tracker" which did return some interesting results and I eventually found the preferences setting (or "unsetting" as it turned out) utility.