Files in vault_path not indexed

[jederik]

Hello. I love the idea of Rucola and am very excited to try it but currently I can't due to the following issue:

I installed Rucola via Cargo on Ubuntu 23.10. However, when I specify a directory as the vault_path the files in the directory are not listed in the Select View. On the other hand, when I specify an individual file then this one file is listed but no others and trying to view it gives me a Not a directory (os error 20).

Hope this helps.

[Linus-Mussmaecher]

Hi. Obvious "this doesn't happen on my machine". Some things to check:

• Are you configuring the directory in the same format as in the default config?
• Do you have read/write permission for this directory?
• Are the files you want to show up actually markdown files, i.e. have the .md extension or similar? .txt-Files, for example, or files without a file extension, will not be recognized.
• By default, rucola ignores hidden files, hidden folders and respects your .gitignore file. Does this cause a problem here?
• Maybe try to pass an absolute path (like /home/linus/MyNotes instead of ~/MyNotes) as a test?

If all of this does not help, what happens if you pass the directory as a positional argument like rucola ~/MyNotes or rucola /home/linus/MyNotes instead of using the config file? Maybe that can help us track down the error.

Also report what happens when you do not specifiy a vault path in the config and simply open rucola with out any arguments in the folder you want to index.

The error if you pass a file seems acceptable by me - you are supposed to pass a directory.

[jederik]

Hey. Thanks for the quick reply.

I checked all of your points but none of them helped.

• This is my config.toml:

  file_types = ["markdown"]
  default_extension = "md"
  theme = "default_dark"
  stats_show = "Both"
  viewer = [
    "firefox",
    "%p",
  ]
  enable_html = true
  css = "default_dark"
  katex = true
  vault_path = "/home/jederik/notes"
  
  [math_replacements]
  '\field' = '\mathbb'
  '\liealg' = '\mathfrak'

• I definitely have all permissions on /home/jederik/notes

• all files are .md files

• there is no git repo or hidden files

• absolute path doesn't help

• running rucola /home/jederik/notes shows the same behavior

• when removing the vault_path entry from the config and creating a ~/MyNotes folder with some MD files in it, there seems to be some indexing on startup but still nothing is shown in the list.

Definitely, pointing to a file doesn't make much sense but I thought it might give you a clue on what the problem is.

[Linus-Mussmaecher]

So I ran my own application with your exact config, only changing vault_path to a newly created directory (both as ~/TestNotes and /home/linus/TestNotes) I put 4 of my markdown files in. I also briefly wondered if maybe the lack of a .gitignore confuses the program. Sadly, I did not get your issue.

Internally, rucola uses the directory walker of ripgrep to index files. Can you maybe check if ripgrep itself works correctly on your machine? Otherwise I will maybe run up a Ubuntu virtual machine (most of my testing has been on Arch/EndeavourOS as that's what I'm using as a daily driver) and see if I can replicate the problem.

[jederik]

Arrrg... I had a .gitignore in the parent folder. Sorry, for the trouble and thanks for your effort.

[Linus-Mussmaecher]

Glad to hear you got it resolved!

If you have any more issues or feedback, don't hesitate to tell me.