I'm glad you didn't lose them...Its supposed to delete them but its pretty painful to lose them so I'm happy for you


You'll have to wait for the re-indexing as I don't think you must have fiddled with smartsearch so its just the re-indexing...


You can check its progress too:
Open terminal and type tracker-control

Damn, you were right after all!

After a reboot all the contacts, messages, and call logs are gone.

Not a big deal because I hardly ever call and send and receive very few messages and all my contacts are on my 73 as well so I can just copy them again.

And the search is now working again.

I'll be more careful next time I see a command to execute and pay closer attention to what those with more experience have to say.

Some man pages would be nice!

Thanks for listening

No probs...Just use N9QTweak to backup your contacts/messages for the future...

Next time try not to reset tracker...Do it only as a last resort...

I agree with you some wiki pages here would be good

As I wrote in other thread on TMO - problem is that tracker is incorrectly indexing the files, not assigning them "media file" metadata info. That happens when your user-dirs.dirs file gets messed up. After correcting the file all new media files will be correctly indexed, but old ones will still carry wrong metadata tags. So you have 2 options:
1. Copy/upload again all files not showed. They will be indexed correctly.
2. Reset tracker so it re-indexes whole device memory. This way you lose all your messages, call log AND contacts.

Here is the bug filed: http://harmattan-bugs.nokia.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1121
There is useful info one can read.

I have the same problem with tracker. This is what I already did:

Removed .png and .jpg files from /home and /home/user

Checked user-dirs.dirs file and corrected it (only Video was not what it should be, was "$HOME"). Now, it is like this:

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/MyDocs"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/MyDocs/Downloads"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/MyDocs"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/MyDocs"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/MyDocs/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/MyDocs/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/MyDocs/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/MyDocs/Videos"

Tried the wook_sf tool: gallerybugx and rebooted but had no luck.


Finally I reset tracker-control doing tracker-control -r ... no luck (plus contacts, call history and SMS vanished but I was prepared).


I give herewith the tracker logs. As there are so many errors, maybe nothing can be done and only a reflash will correct the situation.


Now, when I open the gallery, I see only the pictures in Home/user/mydocs/pictures but I do not see other pictures in the subfolders of Home/user/mydocs/pictures.

When I open the music, it is stucked in the updating the library.

When I open Videos, he tells that there is no videos. If I take a video, I see it in the Home/user/MyDocs/DCIM folder.


All my pictures, music and videos are stilll there, I can see them with Filebox or Wazapp.


OK, so, before I reflash, have you some advice or hint for me to try? Thanks in advance.

Jordi,

Can you remove your pictures, music etc from your device, reboot then re-add them to your phone?

My dear Thedead1440, you are the best!

It's working now, all my pictures, music and videos are there again.

Thanks a lot; since yersteday, I spent at least 3 or 4 hours fighting with this.

Although I'm pleased it works, you had to reset tracker which caused a huge data loss

If next time you fix user-dirs.dirs, the first option is to get tracker to re-index things...

For it to re-index the media needs to be removed, device rebooted and then media re-added into the device...

If you had posted about this yesterday we could have saved the data

Reinstall your tracker will fix this, restore that dirs-dirs thing, reinstall your tracker and reboot,

works perfect here

Now, I have something weird: when seeing picture in the gallery, some are doubled and their aspect ratio is incorrect.

Edit: problem solved. Removed the pictures, rebooted and re-added the pictures again.