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I have a directory in my Home that contains many small files and I would like to exclude it from indexing and search.

How can I do this?

I am running Ubuntu 18.04.

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  • does this answer your question? https://askubuntu.com/a/393248/307670 – graham Feb 09 '20 at 10:39
  • @Rinzwind I think it doesn't apply to 18.04, unfortunately. – a06e Feb 09 '20 at 11:02
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    @Graham Also seems to not apply to 18.04. – a06e Feb 09 '20 at 11:02
  • @Rinzwind As suggested in one of those answers I tried `touch .trackerignore` inside the directory I want to exclude. I'm not seeing it working yet (searching still returns results within this directory), but maybe I am supposed to wait a while for some caches to clear or something. Can you confirm if directories with a `.trackerignore` file are actually ignored in 18.04? Thanks! – a06e Feb 09 '20 at 11:23
  • In Ubuntu 18.04, tracker is not yet used by default. So this likely is not to be solved in Tracker, unless the OP has enabled it. – vanadium Feb 09 '20 at 11:46
  • Hmmm, now I am confused. Is this contradicting what @Rinzwind just said? – a06e Feb 09 '20 at 11:56

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