[Nepomuk] Indexing behavior with external HDs

[Ignacio Serantes]

Hi,

I had an unmount recurring problem with my external HDs and yesterday
I located the culprit. The fact is that nepomukindexer was indexing my
disk and while indexing is running I can't unmount my external HDs.
Luckily pausing indexing solved the problem but this could be hidden
to normal users. I imagine that nepomuk is using the same policy to
index internal and external HDs and this could be problematic. Maybe
this could be solved detecting that the user want's to unmount an
external HD and stopping the indexing but I don't know if this
detection is possible.

In my case I have several thousands of music videos in several video
formats and indexing takes so long so I think that automatic indexing
is not a good idea with external HDs and must be a user decision. A
manual indexing/reindexing combined with the tip from
"http://trueg.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/manually-forcing-the-re-indexing-of-folders-is-easy"
will be my ideal solution.

I am aware of the difficulty of synchronizing information of tens of
thousands of files from my hard drive so try to have updated this
information, in my particular case, is a waste of system resources.

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Best wishes,
Ignacio