I have used and depended on Recoll in Linux Mint for several years. Version 1.21.5 in Mint reliably indexes a large directory on an external drive, without error messages. The configuration indicates the top directory to be indexed and the database directory, and nothing else. I have no settings in Local parameters, or in a recoll.conf file.

I recently configured boot partitions with openSUSE Tumbleweed and Antergos. I installed Recoll 1.23 on both, and couldn't get them to work. Each run reported thousands of errors, and tests afterward proved that Recoll failed to index many files.

I checked for missing helpers, experimented with local parameters and recoll.conf settings, but made no headway. I am attempting in each case to index the same NTFS formatted drive, and obtained the Recoll versions used from the Mint, openSUSE Tumbleweed (KDE Extra) and Antergos non-AUR repositories.

I haven't been able to find a log file of skipped/missed files, and don't see any mention in the documentation of where I can find such a log.

Any suggestions from Recoll users will be welcome. If others have had problems with Recoll in other-than-Debian-based distributions, I'd like to know that, too.

Please post clear output of the errors you encountered.

Problem solved! It looks like an unrtf packaging issue, at least with Tumbleweed. The troubleshooting details:

https://opensourceprojects.eu/p/reco...ets/10/?page=0

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Thanks for the update and solution.