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[KarlRelton <karllinuxtest.relton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Re #53, I have compiled from source the a-l-m and tried the 'retrieve
from past' feature.

Unfortunately no matter what I do it says '0 events inserted', and no
extra files then seem to be visible.

I then tried the 'history.py' script that Seif kindly referenced on a
blog post of his a while back, which has the same basic crawler code but
packaged to be run on a directory of the users choice from the command
line. This does insert a number of events (almost as many events as
there are files in the directory concerned) - but then nothing can seem
to be able to find them: neither Unity Dash of gaj display them.

So although there is now crawler code out there in the wild, it doesn't
seem to be helping for some reason.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/646724

Title:
  not all files show up in files-place

Status in Unity:
  Triaged
Status in Unity 2D:
  Triaged
Status in Unity Files Lens:
  Triaged
Status in Zeitgeist Framework:
  Invalid
Status in Zeitgeist Data-Sources:
  Invalid
Status in “unity-lens-files” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “unity-place-files” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “zeitgeist” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  The Unity interface, with its files-place feature for user access to
  files/documents etc. is really great.

  However there is a problem since the search feature relies wholly on
  zeitgeist (AFAIK), in the zeitgeist is not tracking everything.

  E.g. in openoffice, I create a new file (or open an existing one) from
  within openoffice itself. This file does not show up, presumably
  because openoffice does not (yet) push its activity to zeitgeist.

  I guess any number of other programs could suffer the same problem.

  For the average user, this is surely going to be confusing. They will
  create documents via legitimate means ('New ...' buttons in their
  applications), and then expect to be able to search for them in the
  Unity files-place interface.

  To avoid this confusion I would guess there really needs to be a
  filesystem watcher on the home dir (or key folders within it) so that
  zeitgeist is aware of activity caused by non-zeitgeist-aware
  applications.

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