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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1.20-32 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
.
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/[me]/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 1.32
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GUI: added a collapsible side pane for quick filtering on dates or directories.
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Windows: real time indexing.
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Showing duplicates now uses a spreadsheet like the result table for easy access to the duplicate files.
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Fixed the temporary copy open dialog (again!).
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The default mimeview and mimeconf configuration files were separated into generic and system-specific parts to avoid update errors (no consequences for users).
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Renamed all Python input handler with a .py extension. This is relied on on Windows rather than listing an explicit python interpreter.
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Added %l specification to viewer definitions for opening at a specific line.
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Misc small bug fixes.
Minor releases at a glance
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1.32.9
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Windows GUI: fix directory tree side filter, the generated paths were wrong on Windows.
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1.32.8
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PDF: fix encoding issue when extracting attachments.
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recollq: add command line option to extract a result document into file.
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GUI result list: improve paging behaviour with webkit (still a bit wrong with webengine, see QTBUG-105842)
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GUI: fix document icon display issue under Linux/Webengine.
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1.32.7
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KIO: fixed for recent KDE KF5 releases (5.96).
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rclaudio: fix extracting comment fields from flac files.
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Python code preview: get rid of spurious encoding value output.
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Fix glitch in Qt GUI when between list and table display.
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1.32.5
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GUI: Switch the Debian/Ubuntu packages to using Qt-Webengine instead of Qt-Webkit. Qt-Webkit has major CSS issues.
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GUI: improve font size consistency when the interface is scaled.
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Allow displaying line numbers in recollq and snuppets.
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PDF handler: fix opening attachments (the path needs decoding).
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1.32.4
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Try to improve font size consistency by using px sizes everywhere.
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Fix Increase/Decrease font size menu options.
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Allow displaying line numbers in snippets.
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1.32.3
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Fix an issue affecting opening Org files in particular: when %F was specified in the command line to open the parent document, a temporary file was created instead of opening the original file.
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1.32.2
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Restore result list popup menu function when using webengine. This was broken in 1.32.1. Note: this was only a problem when building with the non-default --enable-webengine option. No need to update for building with Qt Webkit.
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Show progress dialog when result list abstracts generation takes too long.
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1.32.1
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GUI side panel filters: make sure the filter is applied even if set before the query.
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GUI side panel directory filter: compute the tree from the index, not the file system, to allow filtering data from external indexes. Update the tree when an indexing completes.
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Implement whole UI scaling factor (fonts only, no icons).
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Orgmode: add orgmodesubdocs configuration variable to decide if we index whole files or create subdocuments for nodes. Also index text before the first heading.
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GUI: fix path translation for importing an index from Windows.
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Windows: fix RECOLL_EXTRA_DBS support.
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