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Add turtle files (.ttl) to FoxTrot Index fails [message #1965]

Wed, 10 September 2025 10:09

Lou
Messages: 8
Registered: October 2022

Junior Member

Hi,

I tried to add turtle files to the FoxTrot Index, following the instructions described in https:// forum.foxtrot-search.com/index.php?goto=759&t=msg&ut m_source=chatgpt.com.

Applied following terminal-command:

defaults write com.ctmdev.foxtrot Aliases -array-add "{type='ttl'; as='txt';}"

But it does not work. When I search for the file name, FoxTrot shows up the file. But when I search for the content, it does not.

I also followed the instruction to delete the aliases, start/quit FoxTrot again, stop all processes in the activity monitor, add ttl-files as alias once more, rebuild the index, but with same result: Files were found, content not.

Command applied to delete the alias was

defaults delete com.ctmdev.foxtrot Aliases

The processes I identified and stopped were
- FoxTrot Pro Starter
- FoxTrot System Menu

Any other processes to be stopped? Or any other idea what could have gone wrong?

Edit 1
- Do not know, if relevant, but files are stored on a google drive (downloaded).

Edit 2
- Confusing increases: Even when I rename the files to .txt FoxTrot can not find the files by content. But: Spotlight does. Even with ending ttl. Seems that there is an other problem, a more basic one.

Edit 3
- Ok, some findings: When I apply .txt-Ending and place the file outside from google drive in the local file system, FoxTrot finds the file by content. When I use ending ttl FoxTrot does not find the file by content.
- There seems to be an issue with google drive. When I add files to the google drive and update the index the number of files in the index does not change.

[Updated on: Wed, 10 September 2025 10:56]

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Re: Add turtle files (.ttl) to FoxTrot Index fails [message #1972 is a reply to message #1965]

Wed, 08 October 2025 19:17

FoxTrot Engineering
Messages: 427
Registered: April 2020

Senior Member

Sorry for the late answer.
The thread you are referring to on our forum is outdated; for version 7 and 8, the command to use is (replace FoxTrot by FoxTrotShared):

defaults write com.ctmdev.FoxTrotShared Aliases -array-add "{type='ttl'; as='txt';}"

This is documented on our hidden preferences page.
After typing this command, you need to rebuild your index (or modify, rename or move your .tll files so updating the index will actually reindex them).

Jérôme - FoxTrot Engineering

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