Comment 26 for bug 602211

Nautilus can tell us when a file is being renamed or moved from whithin
nautilus.

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 7:27 PM, S. Sickert <email address hidden> wrote:

> Reading through all the comments - it seems to me that there are two
> problems to tackle:
>
> 1) Determine which files are interesting for the user - this can be done
> with the Taskview API
>
> 2) Keep track of these files - this must be done with inotify, as there
> are many programs which don't notify anybody about file changes. (e.g
> mv, batch-renamer, ...). There is still the problem of "offline" (we are
> not running) changes, but I don't see any solution except scanning the
> whole filesystems, which is also very suboptimal.
>

We can keep track of files as long as applications tell us if they are
moving them around. Currently only nautilus and commandline can undertake
such activities. But how many normal users use commandline.
There is NO WAY we will use inotify so the best solution right now is to get
the info:
1) moving and copying over nautilus -> taskview -> zeitgeist
2) renaming shoul be done over nautilus -> zeitgeist

>
> Of course there is a bit redundancy between 1 and 2 (e.g. move already
> known files with nautilus) and must be filtered out.
>
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> Monitoring Create/Move/Copy Files events
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/602211
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> Status in Zeitgeist Framework: Confirmed
> Status in Zeitgeist Datahub: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> An issue we are facing at the moment is that ppl lose track of there files
> in a timeline if the file was moved around or renamed. I would propose using
> taskview or patch nautilus to actually grab those events and either:
> 1) Modify the uris in the uris table
> 2) Create a new table with | new_id | old_uri_id | event | to map uris
> to their actual ids and the event that allowed the change, this would allow
> us to track a history of renaming or moving a file. It will look a bit like
> the following:
>
> 9 | 9 | 48124 # CREATE EVENT
> 12 | 9 | 48126 # MOVE EVENT
>
> In other words the last row means uri 12 was moved from uri 9 with event
> 48126
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