nextcloud / nextcloud/fulltextsearch

fulltextsearch:live does not find and index new files on external storages

Open
#566 4 comments 3 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Dominant language
PHP
Stars
234
Forks
64
Avg merge
6h 18m
Merged PRs (30d)
10

Description

I have a couple of folders connected via davfs2 to my Nextcloud VM, so they are mounted to the filesystem, i.e. "/opt/Alfresco".

These mounts are configured in Nextcloud as external storage, type "local".

Running a "fulltextsearch: index" crawls them all and the full text search works as expected. I'm then running "fulltextsearch:live" as a system service, this is confirmed working and running.

But when new files are added to one of these external storages, Nextcloud finds and scans them with the cron job, but the running fulltextsearch:live never processes and indexes them. These files are never found in any search.

When stopping the fulltextsearch:live and perfoming an "occ fulltextsearch:index", it'll immediately find and index all the missing files on the external storages.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by comparing the processing path of the running fulltextsearch:live service with the fulltextsearch:index command for local external storage mounted through davfs2. Reproduce by adding a file under /opt/Alfresco, then verify that the live service indexes it and that the file appears in full-text search without rerunning the manual index command.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
php
Domain
backend, search
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.