Activities not showing some files in search in overview

[Cristiano Fraga G. Nunes]

I am facing an issue with the new version of Gnome (3.36) in Ubuntu 20.04.

The problem is as follows:
I copied files inside home folder (e.g., documents, images, videos) and subfolders, then waited for tracker to index, then do a search trough overview and in Nautilus. The result: Nautilus shows all the files when searched, but these files are not showed in Activities view (search in Activities).

I have checked that the respective tracker options are appropriately configured. Also, this is happening (at least for me) only with Nautilus 3.36. I have not found this behavior with the previous 3.34.x version.

There is a bug issue in Gnome: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/1412

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.36.0-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-21.25-generic 5.4.27
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu24
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Apr 7 02:27:25 2020
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-04-05 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Beta amd64 (20200402)
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.36.0-2ubuntu1
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
modified.conffile..etc.default.apport: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.default.apport: 2020-04-05T20:36:45.617982

[Cristiano Fraga G. Nunes (cfgnunes)]

This bug occur only in Ubuntu 20.04. I have not found this behavior with the previous versions.

[Cristiano Fraga G. Nunes (cfgnunes)]

Addition: The files are displayed only if they are on "Recent" list.

[Cristiano Fraga G. Nunes (cfgnunes)]

As long as developers don't perform a code fix, (as a workaround) you can change the format of your system to the "United States".

Go to "Settings -> Region & Language -> Formats" and change the format.

(more details is explained in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/1412)

[Cristiano Fraga G. Nunes (cfgnunes)]

The bug occur if you use the system format that uses 'comma' instead of 'dot' as decimal separator.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:3.36.1.1-1ubuntu2

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nautilus (1:3.36.1.1-1ubuntu2) focal; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/gitlab_tracker_fixes.patch:
    - backport upstream candidate fixes to resolve files not being
      listed anymore in the GNOME activity screen (lp: #1871296)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Fri, 10 Apr 2020 16:08:10 +0200

[gales (r576tuj76u)]

This has not been fixed in the final release of ubuntu 20.04. Even after applying every update.

Will only search within recent files.

Language: English (United States)
Formats: España = Spain
Input sources: Spanish

Trying to change my format to english US won't fix it btw.