Tracker-miner-fs Indexing and High CPU Usage

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This is a Gnome-Dependent service. As such, toggling it does not work so easily.
You can mask the service to stop it from indexing:

systemctl --user mask tracker-extract-3.service tracker-miner-fs-3.service tracker-miner-rss-3.service tracker-writeback-3.service tracker-xdg-portal-3.service tracker-miner-fs-control-3.service

Then run:

tracker3 reset -s -r

A reboot is required to see the change.

You can start the service running again by unmasking it:

systemctl --user unmask tracker-extract-3.service tracker-miner-fs-3.service tracker-miner-rss-3.service tracker-writeback-3.service tracker-xdg-portal-3.service tracker-miner-fs-control-3.service

tracker3 reset -s -r

As above;
A reboot is required to see the change.

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