Unity files lens does not find files and folders

[vanadium]

Binary package hint: unity-place-files

It should be possible to retrieve any file/folder from the user's home folder from the Unity file lens. Currently, it happens too frequently that the File lens does not retrieve a folder I know is there.

The Applications lens finds all applications on the system, and even these not on the system, available for download). In the same realm, the File lens should find all files in the user's home directory. Typing part of the name of a file/folder that is on the system, should retrieve the file/folder.

Currently, the file lens cannot be used reliable. One is never sure if a needed file/folder will be retrieved or not if it has not been very recently used. As a matter of fact, as per bug 749566, folders are not retrieved anyway.

Super + a, "Update" is guaranteed to retrieve Update Manager. I would like the same reliability from the file lens in retrieving my files.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity-place-files 0.5.46-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu May 5 16:45:15 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/unity-place-files/unity-files-daemon
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: unity-place-files
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-13 (22 days ago)

[vanadium (ftack)]

This issue indeed is covered by bug #646724, which is why I will mark mine here as a duplicate.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.