Initial sleep

Initial sleep time, in seconds. 15

Throttle

Indexing speed, the higher the slower. 0

Low disk space limit

Disk space threshold in percent at which to pause indexing, or -1 to disable. -1

Crawling interval

Interval in days to check whether the filesystem is up to date in the database. 0 forces crawling anytime, -1 forces it only after unclean shutdowns, and -2 disables it entirely. -1

Removable devices’ data permanence threshold

Threshold in days after which files from removables devices will be removed from database if not mounted. 0 means never, maximum is 365. 3

Enable monitors

Set to false to completely disable any file monitoring true

Index removable devices

Set to true to enable indexing mounted directories for removable devices. false

Index optical discs

Set to true to enable indexing CDs, DVDs, and generally optical media (if removable devices are not indexed, optical discs won’t be either) false

Index when running on battery

Set to true to index while running on battery true

Perform initial indexing when running on battery

Set to true to index while running on battery for the first time only true

Directories to index recursively

List of directories to index recursively, Special values include: ‘&DESKTOP’, ‘&DOCUMENTS’, ‘&DOWNLOAD’, ‘&MUSIC’, ‘&PICTURES’, ‘&PUBLIC_SHARE’, ‘&TEMPLATES’, ‘&VIDEOS’. See /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults and $HOME/.config/user-dirs.default [ '&DESKTOP', '&DOCUMENTS', '&MUSIC', '&PICTURES', '&VIDEOS' ]

Directories to index non-recursively

List of directories to index without inspecting subfolders, Special values include: ‘&DESKTOP’, ‘&DOCUMENTS’, ‘&DOWNLOAD’, ‘&MUSIC’, ‘&PICTURES’, ‘&PUBLIC_SHARE’, ‘&TEMPLATES’, ‘&VIDEOS’. See /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults and $HOME/.config/user-dirs.default [ '$HOME', '&DOWNLOAD' ]

Index applications installed on the system

If this option is enabled, the filesystem miner will look for .desktop files in the standard XDG system and user data directories. true

Ignored files

List of file patterns to avoid [ '*~', '*.o', '*.la', '*.lo' , '*.loT', '*.in', '*.csproj', '*.m4', '*.rej', '*.gmo', '*.orig', '*.pc', '*.omf', '*.aux', '*.tmp', '*.vmdk', '*.vm*', '*.nvram', '*.part', '*.rcore', '*.lzo', 'autom4te', 'conftest', 'confstat', 'Makefile', 'SCCS', 'ltmain.sh', 'libtool', 'config.status', 'confdefs.h', 'configure', '#*#', '~$*.doc?', '~$*.dot?', '~$*.xls?', '~$*.xlt?', '~$*.xlam', '~$*.ppt?', '~$*.pot?', '~$*.ppam', '~$*.ppsm', '~$*.ppsx', '~$*.vsd?', '~$*.vss?', '~$*.vst?', 'mimeapps.list', 'mimeinfo.cache', 'gnome-mimeapps.list', 'kde-mimeapps.list', '*.directory' ]

Ignored directories

List of directories to avoid [ 'po', 'CVS', 'core-dumps', 'lost+found' ]

Ignored directories with content

Avoid any directory containing a file blocklisted here [ '.trackerignore', '.git', '.hg', '.nomedia' ]