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Gnome Nautilus - How to add directory to the index so it can be "starred"

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I'm trying to take advantage of the starring option in Nautilus. But it seems like there is a Bug which doesn't allow to "star" no indexed directories.

How do I add a directory to the index?

Note 1: right now it seems like I can only star directories in the first level of the Users folder as well as in the default folders like Desktop, Documents, Downloads etc.

Note 2: the way starring how it worked in Ubuntu 19.04 seems not work anymore.

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answered 1 Year ago motivengry · Accepted Answer

Nautilus uses Tracker to index the files in the system. We can use tracker command to add new files or directory.

tracker index --help



NAME

       tracker-index - List, pause, resume and command data miners indexing content



SYNOPSIS

       tracker index --reindex-mime-type <mime1> [[-m [mime2]] ...]

       tracker index --file <file1> [[file2] ...]

       tracker index --import <file1> [[file2] ...]

       tracker index --backup <file> | --restore <file>

Check current indexed folders and files:

tracker status



Currently indexed: 373 files, 49 folders

Remaining space on database partition: 234.0 GB (55.50%)

All data miners are idle, indexing complete

For instance if you want to index this additional folder /home/user/newfolder

tracker index --file /home/user/newfolder



# Confirm that the new folder has been indexed.

# Should output more files and folders than before.

tracker status