#6584 LOW Never A: improved scanning of removable devices (was: option to bypass scan of removable device)

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#6584: improved scanning of removable devices
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  Reporter:  mikus             |       Owner:  tomeu         
      Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  new           
  Priority:  low               |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
 Component:  journal-activity  |     Version:                
Resolution:                    |    Keywords:                
  Verified:  0                 |    Blocking:                
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Comment(by Eben):

 I think that omitting full text search is the right thing to do here.  We
 must scan recursively, however, so that all files on the device are listed
 and available.  I don't believe that doing this should take terribly long,
 and I also think we could do this async so that the list is available for
 searching/browsing while it is still being populated.

 I have a powerful suggestion for enhancing this scanning process though,
 that should make it easier for people to view devices which contain
 hierarchies.  I think that the scanning process should add two bits of
 metadata to the index for each file: 1) The full path to the file on the
 device and 2) the name of the file's parent directory, if it has one.
 This will allow one to begin typing a file path to narrow the list
 accordingly, with only those files within subdirectories appearing, or to
 simply type the name of a directory (assuming unique directory names) to
 list its contents.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6584#comment:4>
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