[Discuss] What is the value of having Strigi (in Kubuntu)

[John Blomfield]

Have you emptied trash lately and checked your download and temp 
directories?  John

Murray Strome wrote:
> This morning, I got a message that I was running low on disk space. I could not figure out why this should be happening as I didn't think I had that much stuff on my system.  To gain space, I removed some applications that I thought I could do without, but it did not help much.  I started looking around and found that there  were a bunch of very large files in a subdirectory of $HOME/.strigi/.  I deleted them, freeing up about 20% of my total disk space (on the laptop, I have everything on one partition).
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> I don't think I have ever used Strigi. From what little I have read, it seems to be a bit like "indexing" in later versions of Windows, which I have learned to disable in order to have better system performance. 
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> Am I missing something useful?  Or is this something I should just remove from the system?
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> Murray
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