Full text search restricted to some directories

[Adams Jensen]

Full text search does not work on Ubuntu 20.04

* Test case
- install tracker and restart your session
- echo 'Nautilus is great' > ~/txt
- open nautilus and type 'great' in the search entry

version of nautilus 3.36.3-stable

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, in the search popdown widget, what choice is selected, full text or filename?

[Adams Jensen (adamsjensen)]

selected full text,
It’s very strange, but when I checked this test case on my home computer, nothing worked for me, but now I’m checking on the laptop. and I see that everything works.

[Adams Jensen (adamsjensen)]

I just checked and found one pattern.

The search yields no results if you run it in a non-home directory

to repeat the error, try creating a txt file in a folder where there are already various other files of large and small sizes. For an example, I used my git repository, I tried to find one of my functions. but there were no results.
Also, the word “great” could not be found, although a file with such a word exists.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

should we close then or do you still have the issue on your desktop configuration?

[Adams Jensen (adamsjensen)]

No, it is does not work.

to repeat the error, try creating a txt file in a folder where there are already various other files of large and small sizes. For an example, I used my git repository, I tried to find one of my functions. but there were no results.
Also, the word “great” could not be found, although a file with such a word exists.

For some reason, searching for file contents only works in the home folder. on 2 of my devices.

[Adams Jensen (adamsjensen)]

i am recorded the video with this problem.
https://youtu.be/1yv-r4cn9Qs

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, that sounds similar to e.g https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/502

[Adams Jensen (adamsjensen)]

thanks, but still it seems that the problem is a little different, because searching by file name works.

i am dublicate this issues in GNOME.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/1543