3.7. The update dialog

The Update DBs dialog pops up when you click on the Update button in the main window. The displayed drives are the ones specified in your ~/.qt/xlocaterc file, provided there were mounted by the time you clicked on the main window's Update pushbutton. You can select one or more drives to update. The update processes are launched as separate threads as soon as you click on the Update button in the dialog box, but the dialog will be exited only when you click on Done. A message box will inform you when the database has been built, which can in some cases take several minutes.

If you update a drive tagged as removable, you will be prompted for a name to give to the entry in the volume list, and by the same token to the index file. Be careful to use the same name when you update a removable writable media. Currently, XLocate helps you doing this by providing the volume's label as a suggestion for this name.