dash file search: no indication about paths

[Paul Matthijsse]

I have backup files on a second drive in my pc. When I use dash to search for a file, it always shows two entries of a certain file, one in say /home/paul/work, the other in /media/hd250/backup. It happend to me several times the last days that I discovered that I was working on an backup file. In case of a file with lots of passwords, this is really a very bad thing.

So show up the path of the file somewhere, or add a filter that only shows results from this_drive or that_drive or both drives.

Regards, Paul.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: dash 0.5.5.1-7.4ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 27 15:15:06 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
SourcePackage: dash
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Paul Matthijsse (paul-matthijsse)]

Update.

Tonight I noticed that my work from today (on two articles) was replaced by the rsync backup of yesterday. Apparently I have been working today on the backup files of yesterday, without me knowing that / without Ubuntu informing me about that, after having opened them via dash.

1. This is an urgent issue.
2. Workaround: stop using dash to access files until this problem is solved. Use Nautilus instead.

Other users with backups on the same machine should be informed about this.

[Martin Pokorny (martin-truffulatree)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

* Is this reproducible?
* If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

This will help us to find and resolve the problem. In particular, I do not understand what you're doing when you "use dash to search for a file." A simple example would be a great help.

[Paul Matthijsse (paul-matthijsse)]

Martin,

Thanks for your time to start with.

To reproduce this problem, one needs two files with the same name on the pc. This is the case when one rsync's certain directories to another drive.

"Use dash to search for a file":
-- click on the Dash home button on the left side of the screen or hit the Super key on the keyboard
-- type in the Search field the first two letters of a file name
-- because I have backups of my files on another drive, two files are suggested.

Here is where the problem starts, as I can't find out which one is the original and which one is the backup.

[Martin Pokorny (martin-truffulatree)]

This is actually a unity bug, not a bug in the Debian Almquist Shell (dash).

[Martin Pokorny (martin-truffulatree)]

This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #798445, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.