It's difficult to save a Nautilus search

[Celso Pinto]

Currently, the only way there is to save a file search in Nautilus is to click on the "Save Search As" menu item under the File menu. This isn't very obvious and having this option near the "Empty Wastebasket" menu item doesn't help.

Since the search window already has a Reload button, would it be possible to add a "Save As" button below it? This would be more intuitive and easier to find.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. I'm not sure that's used enough to justify having it on the UI that way all the time but I've forwarded it upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332299

[David Planella (dpm)]

Just a quick comment related to this:

it would actually make things easier if the help system at least told you *how* to save searches.

Quoting from the Nautilus help file, chapter "Searching For Files", section "Saving Searches":

<quote>
Nautilus searches can also be saved for future use. Once saved, searches may be reopened later. Figure 6-12 shows a user with three saved searches, browsing one of them.

Saved searches behave exactly like regular folders, for example you can open, move or delete files from within a saved search.
</quote>

It does not actually say *anywhere* how to save a search, i.e. "To save a search, go to File>Save Search As..."

[Joseph Garvin (k04jg02)]

I think KDE has the best option for this:

You can bookmark searches. Just visit the bookmark to perform the search again.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I've forwarded that suggestion as a comment on the upstream bug

[JLuc (jluc-q)]

As of today, its possible to bookmark a search, but the bookmark brings back the last searched string, instead of restoring the bookmarked string.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the feature has been removed, closing

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

https://git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus/commit/?id=7f16bffe19ae65a97b6e1396517a2d92c0c8835e