beagle search limited to files indexed by beagle

The option "search for files" also searches folders. Just try it :)
If you have any problem, tell it here.

Regards
Pochu

Remember everything in UNIX is a file.

dear toby

i remeber that everying is a file (i read the original unix design
book... now you can guess how old i am (;-)

i use the gnome GUI:
i can search fine (for files and folders in my home directory) but not
down from root
e.g. open filesystem
ctrl-f: search for "grub" -- 0 files found (there is a directory in /boot!)

using beagle for searches for folders is not convenient, because beagle
is not always up-to-date and then does not show.

i suggest that the search in nautilus should work from the currently
displayed folder recursively downwards and search for folder and files
with a given name (allowing wildcards) - and not rely on beagle. the
answer in nautilus must be correct for the time i ask.

(i guess the above is a one line unix shell command...)

if your system does what i describe, then i would be interested to
understand where i made an error in installing (i am to ubuntu and back
to unix after N years)

thanks for the help and the good system
andrew

Toby Smithe wrote:
> Remember everything in UNIX is a file.
>
>

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I've played a little with the search function in nautilus, and I think it isn't working well in the root directory for any reason.

If I search for a file in my home directory, it finds it (doesn't matter if the file is in ~/ or in a subfolder). The same happens with folders: it works fine.

However, if I go to the root directory and search something, it can't find it, doesn't matter wether it is a folder or not. I've searched also for "menu.lst" without success.

I've tried to see the output in a terminal, but if I type "nautilus", nautilus is opened, but the terminal command is finished, so I can't see the output.

Do you know which log should I see, or how can I launch nautilus from the terminal with outputs?

Regards
Pochu

Also searching in /home works, don't know why in / doesn't.

That bug is not really clear, could you describe what you are doing, what happens and what you would expect? Does it happen with beagle is not running?

Hi Seb

I don't know beable, but I'll try to tell you the problem.

1) Open nautilus
2) Go to ~/ (or /home)
3) Search for a file or folder in your directory
4) Nautilus shows them. WORKS

1) Open nautilus
2) Go to /
3) Search for a file or folder in / (or /boot, or /usr...)
4) Nautilus can't find the files (and the folders), though they are there. FAILS

Expected result: find the file or folder you are searching for.

That's the problem.

If you want, I can add any log, or open nautilus with debug mode (I'll try to do it tonight, but I have an exam in a few hours so I can't do it now).

Regards
Pochu

That looks like a beagle integration problem, it index user datas and not everything on the filesystem, maybe the interface should somehow make that clear

i remember that the same behavior (not finding anything in / was there before i installed beagle.

in either case, beagle is only indexing files on few folders (primarily /home/~) and search in nautilus should be general and work everywhere and anytime (beagle works only with a delay).

integrating beagle into nautilus is perhaps to big a task; why not restrict the search in nautilus to files and file names and for content use beagle in a search applet on the panel?

quote from bug#150379:

    "Nautilus integrated search (CTRL+F) does not return any result without tracker indexes. I don't need an indexing daemon running all the time so I disabled trackerd [...] and disabled indexing [...]."

maybe the two bugs are related (and maybe bug#148701 "Search function in File browser does not function" also)

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:2.21.92svn20080303-0ubuntu2

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nautilus (1:2.21.92svn20080303-0ubuntu2) hardy; urgency=low

  * debian/control.in:
    - don't use tracker since when it's used only the indexed files are listed,
      the search doesn't work when tracker is not running and it's not
      what users expect (lp: #81977, #148701, #150379)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:59:03 +0100

Closing the Nautilus task for this bug.