How to force tracker to re-index a folder?

Question

I'm using the tracker indexing tool to search for and in files on my Ubuntu 10.10 amd64 system. Having recently added some of files into a single folder I wondered how to force tracker to re-index this folder so I would be able to perform search-queries on these files.

Any ideas? A terminal command would be completely sufficient.

Answer 1

This command will make Tracker reindex all its folders:

tracker-processes -r

Not exactly what you want, but has helped me quite a few times.

Answer 2

tracker should watch the directory and automatically index any added files - so make sure watching is enabled in the preferences. but generally, my experience with tracker has been that it works inconsistently at best.

Answer 3

With recent releases of tracker (mine is 1.12.0), you can force the re-indexing of a given folder simply typing:

tracker reset -f DIR_NAME

This causes the indexed information for DIR_NAME to be deleted and indexed again. Ir could be a directory or a file.