Comment 50 for bug 346912

@Matteo: I was not criticizing tracker -- that I am trying to wort around this bug by purging the files and disabling the feature. And I made an explicit point of saying to Jamie -- you know, the author -- that my turning off the feature was *not* a criticism of his code. I just don't use or want the feature.

@Chris: if that's the case, then why have I had to turn it off on multiple installs? Was it on by default in the past, and that's a carry over? Moreover, In fact, why do I have:

  $ ps auxwww | grep track
  noel 4432 0.0 0.0 166552 3548 ? S 03:43 0:00 tracker-applet
  noel 4449 0.0 0.2 233152 9012 ? SN 03:43 0:00 /usr/lib/tracker/trackerd

and

  $ ls -l .cache/tracker/
  total 11344
  -rw-r--r-- 1 noel noel 1 2009-04-25 13:01 db-version.txt
  -rw-r--r-- 1 noel noel 1 2009-04-25 17:39 email-contents.db
  -rw-r--r-- 1 noel noel 3072 2009-04-25 17:39 email-fulltext.db
  -rw-r--r-- 1 noel noel 2359292 2009-04-26 03:48 email-index.db
  -rw-r--r-- 1 noel noel 34816 2009-04-25 17:39 email-meta.db
  -rw-r--r-- 1 noel noel 1 2009-04-25 17:39 file-contents.db
  -rw-r--r-- 1 noel noel 1069056 2009-04-26 03:43 file-fulltext.db
  -rw-r--r-- 1 noel noel 3563408 2009-04-26 03:48 file-index.db
  -rw-r--r-- 1 noel noel 4543488 2009-04-26 03:43 file-meta.db

  $ ls -l .local/share/tracker/data/
  total 88
  -rw-r--r-- 1 noel noel 84992 2009-04-26 03:43 common.db

if I have indexing disabled on the general tab? Do I also have to turn it off on the files and e-mail tabs, too? What does it take, short of an un-installing, to permanently kill this thing?