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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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