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submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Recoll is not finding "suitcase" in "# example.txt", but it seems to work when i rename the file to "example.txt"

characters and file names exceptions in the Recoll preferences

Solved: characters and file names exceptions in the Recoll preferences, skipped names section

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Not really an answer so sorry about but have you considered using a command line tool like ripgrep or silver searcher instead?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

If i cannot figure out how to use recoll better, i will look into those, thank you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Did you check the characters and file names exceptions in the Recoll preferences ? Maybe # is among it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

thank you, that worked!