Installing over an older version and other notes
Note
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Ubuntu commands installed as snap packages can’t create arbitrary files under /tmp. This is
for example the case by default for pdftk which is used by Recoll to extract PDF attachments. For
best results, set TMPDIR to a location which belongs to you (e.g. inside your home, with something
like export TMPDIR=~/tmp in your shell startup script). Recoll could conceivably work around the
problem all by itself, but I find it in bad taste to create temporary files in an arbitrary location
inside your home.
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1.20 to 1.40 indexes are fully backward compatible. No need to reindex when upgrading.
Always reset the index if you do not know by which version it was created (e.g.: you’re not sure
it’s at least 1.18). The best method is to quit all Recoll programs and delete the index directory
(rm -rf ~/.recoll/xapiandb
), then start recoll
or recollindex
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recollindex -z
will do the same in most, but not all, cases. It’s better to use the rm
method,
which will also ensure that no debris from older releases remain (e.g.: old stemming files which are
not used any more).
On Windows, the index is located by default in C:/Users/[yourlogin]/AppData/Local/Recoll/xapiandb
Case/diacritics sensitivity is off by default. It can be turned on only by editing recoll.conf ( see the manual). If you do so, you must then reset the index.
Changes in Recoll 1.40.0
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Python API: added module to compute an UDI for the filesystem indexer. Added an addOrUpdate() "metaonly" parameter for updating only the metadata.
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Python API: added a module for computing an FS indexer path UDI (to complement the above).
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Text splitter: better reporting of problem terms.
Minor releases at a glance
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1.40.3
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Fix a few minor issues in synonym handling: fix phrase searches with multi-word synonyms, perform white-space normalization while reading the synonyms file.
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Indexer: use SCHED_IDLE instead of maximum nice. Can be disabled by setting idxniceprio to 19 or less.
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1.40.2
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Fixed issues in the side directory tree: very long paths (resulting in a hashed UDI in the index) caused many issues.
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Add Markdown indexer with front matter parser.
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Real time indexing for MacOS.
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1.40.1
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GUI: fix very ennoying bug where the snippets links don’t open the PDF at the indicated page.
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GUI: fixes some preview window issues under Wayland.
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