I use recoll 1.26.3 (french version) xapian 1.4.14 with mint 20.04 My recoll doesn't index files with py as filename suffix. * I have no "missing helper" * I have no problem indexing .odt, .rpg, .pdf, .txt and similar filetypes. In "index mime type" I find "text/x-python" but no way

I installed recoll on my Kubuntu 20.04. Now it says that external apps and commands are missing that are required for the indexing are missing, specifically: djvutxt (image/vnd.djvu) python3:pylzma (application/x-7z-compressed) but I have no idea how to install them. No such packages are shown in muon (my package manager GUI). How can I install them?

Directories can be excluded from Recoll indexing with the parameter skippedPaths in recoll.conf. 1. Does this remove the skipped directory data from Xapian db if the directory was indexed earlier? 2. If it doesn't, how can I remove the directory data from the Xapian db?

When I right click on a search result and choose "Open Parent document/folder", the folder opens in Dolphin. I would prefer to use Thunar, as I run XFCE on Ubuntu 18.04.

I was starting with inotify to monitor changes in my directories and launch a backup script using rclone. So I thought that, taking advantage of the fact that I'm using Recoll in my debian, I could use the changes that Recoll detected to launch rclone, without having inotify working. I haven't been able to find in Recoll a clear log file that tells me the last files that have been modified or created, every time I update the index. I've been trying the recoll_status script, or trying to read xapiandb using xapian-delve, but without success. Any idea how to get a list of the last added or updated documents in the Recoll index?

A while ago, I ran [Recoll](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recoll) which created a database on a partition, so that I could quickly search among all the text information in the contents of all files (text file, pdf, djvu, html, etc) in that partition. Now the partition, for which the Recoll created a database, has been wiped out accidentally, but I can still search in Recoll among those deleted files, because the database of Recoll is stored in another partition that hasn't been affected. 1. When I search for a keyword among the text content of those deleted files, I can still see one or two lines surrounding that keyword as its context, It gives me some hope that it might be possible to recover the text content of each deleted file. But when I hit "Preview" or "Open" for a deleted file found by Recoll, Recoll will try to open the file that doesn't exist any longer, which of course fails. **So I wonder if I can recover the deleted text files from Recoll's database?** 1. When I search for a keyword among the text content of those deleted files, I can also see the full path to each file found, **So I wonder if I can recover the directory structure of my partition from Recoll's database?** Thanks and regards!

How to make recoll program to show files with specific extension (for example, *.cpp, *.txt, etc)?

In our working group we used Recoll on a Ubuntu PC to index all the PDF. For a while we moved everything to a Redhat server. Is there a Recoll alternative which doesn't requires a GUI adn support searching through a web interface?

From what I understand markdown is pretty similar to text and html, which are all indexed by the [recoll](http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/) search engine. However my markdown files with extension .md are not being indexed. I have checked the filters and I am not sure which one applies to markdown, or if its support is missing altogether. If there is a simple way of manually creating a filter then it would be wonderful if someone could help me with creating one. Or if it is a simple setting I'm missing could you please point it out? I am running the latest version of recoll (1.21.5) on Debian Testing

Is there a way to find out, when a recoll -index was last updated?

I would like to know whether I could avoid Recoll searching uses of any of the words in a term and only search the exact term. For example I'm trying to search for *register indirect* and it gives searches of *register*,*indirect* and *register indirect* as shown below.I would only like to get searches of *register indirect*.

I am using recoll to index my files locally and so far it works really well. However, I'd like to have the paths be relative to the recoll.conf or recoll index directory so that I can move the files around as I see fit. Is this possible?