I can confirm this behaviour on 10.10 with tracker 0.8.17. Although it doesn't take as long with my machine, it's still annoying and probably unnecessary. The second paragraph of you bug report is pretty unnecessary, though, please restrict your language to constructive criticism.
** Changed in: tracker (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/684081 Title: After each computer restart tracker indexes all data anew -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs