Why doesn't tracker find anything in my Music folder?

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I have the Music folder specified to be indexed but I can’t get any single result from it.

gsettings get org.freedesktop.Tracker3.Miner.Files index-recursive-directories
['&DESKTOP', '&DOCUMENTS', '&DOWNLOAD', '&PICTURES', '&VIDEOS','&MUSIC']


tracker3 search -s

It shows all the specified directories except the Music directory.

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Hello Roi,

This should work in the standard config. What distribution + version are you using? And do you have any config changes that might affect functionality?

One guess, maybe your XDG $Music dir config is changed? The &MUSIC placeholder in the config list expands based on XDG folder configuration. If you run xdg-user-dir MUSIC in a terminal, what do you see?

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Hi,

I’m using Fedora 41. No, I haven’t touched anything regarding tracker3.

xdg-user-dir MUSIC returns the right directory:

/home/roi/Music

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Thanks ok! I’m not immediately sure then. You do have content in that folder right?

Do you see any errors in tracker3 status or journalctl --user-unit tracker-miner-fs-3.service ?

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I think I should’ve checked the free space of the unit before complaining:

tracker-miner-f[6437]: WARNING: Available disk space (9,822058%) is below configured threshold for acceptable working (10%)

I freed some space and now It’s working flawlessly:

Crawl finished for directory 'file:///home/roi/Music

thank you for your help.

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