Spotlight
Overview
Starting with version 3.1.0, Netatalk includes support for Apple’s Spotlight technology for searching AFP volumes.
This feature uses a backend that is built on a metadata store, indexing and search engine provided by Gnome Tracker.
The official documentation for compiling and using Netatalk with Spotlight support is available in the online manual
Spotlight allows you to search both for file names as well as file contents.
Troubleshooting
If you are seeing an error like this when you try to interact with tracker:
Could not connect to Tracker: Failed to load SPARQL backend: Could not open journal for writing, Permission denied
Please make sure you have the environment variables set up as described in this manual chapter.
Changelog
- STP1: initial release
- STP2: basic build fixes
- STP3: full support for complex Spotlight queries and many metadata attributes
- STP4: add support for the older Tracker 0.6 RDF API, eg on Solaris and derived platforms
- 3.1.0-alpha1: add support for Tracker from OpenCSW on Solaris
- 3.1.0-beta1: moved documentation to the main manual
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Last updated 2024-12-09
