How To Completely Disable Tracker, GNOME's File Indexing And Search Tool | Linux Today

How To Completely Disable Tracker, GNOME’s File Indexing And Search Tool

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Jul 22, 2019

This article explains how to completely disable Tracker, so it no longer indexes any files, and stop having any Tracker process running in the background. Tracker is a file indexing and search tool for Linux. Gnome makes use of it for some of its functionality, and as a result, Tracker is installed by default on quite a few Linux distributions.

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