Searching within Nautilus doesn't work at all
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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nautilus (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
If I click Search in Nautilus (or Ctrl+F), it doesn't find anything I search for. For instance I'm in /bin and I ctrl+f for Bash and nothing comes up. At first I thought Nautilus search was stupid and would only search the current directory (rather than recursively), but even that doesn't seem to be the case.
Meanwhile if I click Search from the Places menu, the search works fine.
Something is definitely broken, but it may be related to this bug: https:/
I had Tracker installed on 7.04 for months. Then I upgraded to 7.10 several hours ago. If Ubuntu is searching with different search tools in different places, it shouldn't be. If Ubuntu is using a search that doesn't work all the time, it shouldn't be. If Nautilus doesn't fall back to a search that works if it is using a search that doesn't work, it should.
It is using Tracker's results when it shouldn't be.
There needs to be an option to let Nautilus not use tracker
If I navigate to a folder and then do a search all I want is results within the folder.
This is annoying before you could navigate to the /usr/share/icons folder
and search for "contact-new.png" and you will get all the varieties of it in thumbnails.
With this Tracker search you can't expect us to index our root folder.
Also if you search for a general term like you .jpg you will get a zillion results. While with the old search it was specific to a folder.