11.10dropboxunity-dashzeitgeist
I am running Ubuntu 11.10, and I would like to force Zeitgeist to index my Dropbox folder. I understand that Zeitgeist is a passive service that logs particular events (such as opening or downloading files) for later searches, but I have large Dropbox folder that was downloaded without being logged by Zeitgeist.
Short of manually opening and closing all files in my Dropbox folder, is there a way to have Zeitgeist index this folder so that I can later search it using the dash? Thanks!
This can be done using the Zeitgeist Activity Log Manager :
Add the Zeitgeist PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:zeitgeist/ppa
Install the latest version of Zeitgeist:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Restart zeitgeist-daemon:
zeitgeist-daemon --replace
Install activity-log-manager
sudo apt-get install activity-log-manager
Open up Activity Log Manager and click the Logging active button in the bottom right corner of the window to disable logging:
Click it again to re-enable logging.
Dash is using the index database created by locate.
To make locate to index and show file on an NTFS partition, you should edit the file /etc/updatedb.conf, and change the line
PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /var/spool /media"
to
PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /var/spool"
This works if your NTFS partition is mounted on a mountpoint under /media (highly probable).
To update immediately the locate database, run
sudo updatedb
Best Answer
Zeitgeist is not an indexing service. For Dropbox transfers to appear inside Zeitgeist, the Dropbox client itself would have to tell Zeitgeist about the events. If you want all the files under there to appear in the dash search, you'll have to open them all, probably from the file manager, so that they get added to the Zeitgeist log.