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Solving problems with binary file indexing

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When binary file indexing is not working, there are a few things to check.

Problem

Possible reason

Solution

Large files are not indexed or do not turn up in the search results

MySQL packet size too small

Increase the pcket size (1M by default) to a larger value (16M is the maximum allowed)

Acrobat pdf files are not properly indexed

ghostscript (older version) is used

Install the xpdf package and use pdftotext in a custom script.

Acrobat pdf files take ages before they are indexed

ghostscript is used

See solution above

Sometimes, a file (pdf, word, ...) is not indexed, with other users there are no problems

The mime settigs of the browser may be wrong

Edit the browser settings (look for spurious mime types connected to a certain filename extension for mozilla based browsers)

MS Excel files are not indexed (ezP 3.2)

MIME-Type for Excel is not defined in 3.2

 

Open \lib\ezutils\classes\ezmimetype.php and insert
array( 'xls', 'application/vnd.ms-excel' ),
into the Array $QuickMIMETypes at the end of the file. Note: Only newly uploaded files get the MIME-Type set, so this will not help you for existing files.

 

 

 

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Created

13/10/2003
9:55:34 pm
by Paul Borgermans

Last updated

26/11/2003
8:37:24 pm
by Marco Zinn

Authors

Paul Borgermans
Marco Zinn



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