[ubuntu-mono] [Bug 33226] Re: beagle should index Microsoft Word and Powerpoint files

[ChrisDebenham]

I have edited external-filters.xml + added the abiconvert script to test this but have hit an issue when creating a test document.
I create/change a .doc file and beagle goes off to index it as expected but after adding it tries to index ~/.fonts.cache-1.TMP-xxxxxx which is deleted quickly so can't be indexed. It also tries to index the short-lived files ~/.fonts-cache-1.[LCK|NEW] with similar failures.  I'm guessing that these files are created by abiword which converting to text.  This would not be much of an issue, but after this it restarts trying to index the .doc file which  starts the whole loop again.
I tried adding those files to the exclude list but that doesn't help as it still tries to crawl them, just not index them.

Example debug output from beagled added below:

Debug: Saw event in '/home/cjd'
Debug: *** Add '/home/cjd' 'test2.doc' (file)
Debug: -file:///home/cjd/test2.doc
Debug: +file:///home/cjd/test2.doc
Debug: Saw event in '/home/cjd'
Debug: Saw event in '/home/cjd'
Debug: *** Add '/home/cjd' '.fonts.cache-1.TMP-lyM7zS' (file)
Debug: Saw event in '/home/cjd'
Debug: Saw event in '/home/cjd'
Debug: *** Remove '/home/cjd' '.fonts.cache-1.TMP-lyM7zS' (file)
Debug: Could not resolve unique id of '.fonts.cache-1.TMP-lyM7zS' in '/home/cjd' for removal, it is probably already gone
Debug: Saw event in '/home/cjd'
Debug: Saw event in '/home/cjd'
Debug: *** Add '/home/cjd' '.fonts.cache-1.NEW' (file)
Debug: Saw event in '/home/cjd'
Debug: *** Move '/home/cjd' '.fonts.cache-1.NEW' -> '/home/cjd' '.fonts.cache-1' (file)
Debug: Saw event in '/home/cjd'
Debug: *** Remove '/home/cjd' '.fonts.cache-1.LCK' (file)
Debug: Could not resolve unique id of '.fonts.cache-1.LCK' in '/home/cjd' for removal, it is probably already gone
Debug: Saw event in '/home/cjd'

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beagle should index Microsoft Word and Powerpoint files
https://launchpad.net/bugs/33226