Comment 8 for bug 684435

Not necessarily. Sometimes you know where the file is, but you’re not sure what it’s called. For example, I may want to play a certain track by some band, and I have no idea what it’s called, but I’ll know it when I see it when I see it the context of the other tracks and albums. Other times, the contents of an entire folder are significant. The Downloads folder is a good example of that. I want to see what I’ve recently downloaded there, in addition to what was downloaded automatically for me by some applications. It’s like an inbox for files. The only way to deal with it is to see what’s there. Synapse would let me deal with it, one file at a time, more quickly and cleanly than opening the folder and leaving it open.

Generally speaking, Search is good for finding stuff most of the time, but not 100% of the time; Browse is necessary the rest of the time. Sure, Nautilus lets you do that, but Synapse would be faster and would provide a more consistent experience.