Search current folder only in nautilus doesn't work (Ubuntu 18.04)

[Chris Billington]

[ Description ]

I upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04 prerelease from Ubuntu 17.10 and am finding that Nautilus searches all subfolders when I start typing, not just the present folder, even though I have the "search only current folder" option selected in its preferences, and "Only searching the current folder" does appear in the GUI as I am searching. Nonetheless results appear from subfolders (which I wouldn't mind, but which I turn off due to its poor performance compared to current-folder-only).

[ Test case ]

1. Start nautilus, form app settings force nautilus to search only in current folder
2. Search for any content you know is available in a subfolder of the current one
3. No results should be shown for any of the subfolders

And also:

1. Open gnome-shell activities (hit super)
2. Search for a file you have in a subfolder of your home (not hidden, backup or anything)
3. The files should be shown on the overview.
4. Hitting nautilus icon in overview, results from any subfolder of your $HOME should be
   presented.

[ Regression potential ]

Searches from gnome-shell activities does not contain all the results. Or normal searches from nautilus might not list results from subfolders.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. Marco could you have a look to that?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

What version of nautilus are you using?

That was a bug before 1:3.26.3-0ubuntu2, but it was fixed in that revision

[Chris Billington (cjbil1)]

I'm using 1:3.26.3-0ubuntu4

Attached is a screenshot demonstrating the problem

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

In what directory are you searching?

And what's the path of the files that should not be there?
Could you post an anonymized list of them (using find results in case)?

[Chris Billington (cjbil1)]

That example was my home directory, and all the files were either in my home directory or a subfolder.

Attached is another example from within the root directory a python project 'zprocess', searching for 'py'.

Here is the result of the find command (excluding hidden files and folders):

zprocess $ find . -not -path '*/\.*' -name '*py*' | sort
./doc/conf.py
./run_tests.py
./setup.py
./tests/output_redirection.py
./tests/tests.py
./zprocess/clientserver.py
./zprocess/examples/example_client.py
./zprocess/examples/example_server.py
./zprocess/examples/processclass_example.py
./zprocess/__init__.py
./zprocess/locking/__init__.py
./zprocess/locking/__main__.py
./zprocess/process_class_wrapper.py
./zprocess/process_tree.py
./zprocess/remote/__main__.py
./zprocess/security.py
./zprocess/utils.py
./zprocess/zlog/__init__.py
./zprocess/zlog/__main__.py

As far as I can tell, it is performing search as if 'search in subfolders' option was set to 'On this computer only', even though the preferences interface shows it set to 'never'.

If I search a remote location it appears to correctly limit search to the current directory.

[Chris Billington (cjbil1)]

Attached is a screenshot of the preferences dialog with my current settings.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:3.26.4-0ubuntu1

---------------
nautilus (1:3.26.4-0ubuntu1) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release: 3.26.4 (LP: #1782681, LP: #1765776)
  * debian/patches/query-add-recursive-flags-and-use-it-in-search-engines.patch,
    debian/patches/0016-search-engine-add-a-recent-search-engine-listing-Gtk.patch,
    debian/patches/0018-search-engine-add-locate-based-search-engine.patch:
    - Follow nautilus settings to search only in current folder (LP: #1767027).
      This doesn't apply to gnome-shell search provider for indexed searches.
  * debian/patches/0017-recent-add-function-to-update-manager-on-file-rename.patch:
    - Updated to respect upstream requested changes
  * debian/patches/nautilusgtkplacesview-show-error-if-volume-is-not-mounted.patch:
    - don't crash if selecting a volume that is not mounted (LP: #1764779)
  * debian/patches/Revert-Revert-files-view-Remove-new-empty-folder-name-sug.patch,
    debian/patches/Revert-Revert-nautilus-file-Don-t-show-thumbnails-for-the.patch:
    - Reverts the reverts introduced in 2.26.3.1 as they are in ubuntu already
  * debian/patches/clear_pending_selection.patch,
    debian/patches/git_middle_tab.patch,
    debian/patches/server_list_segfault.patch,
    debian/patches/nautilusgtkplacesview-show-error-if-volume-is-not-mounted.patch:
    - Patches removed as they are already applied upstream

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Jul 2018 04:52:45 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Chris, or anyone else affected,

Accepted nautilus into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/1:3.26.4-0~ubuntu18.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Chris Billington (cjbil1)]

I tested with nautilus 1:3.26.4-0~ubuntu18.04.1 and the issue is fixed for me.

Thank you! :)

[Marc Peña (pachulo)]

Installed the package and now the option to "search only current folder" is honoured.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:3.26.4-0~ubuntu18.04.1

---------------
nautilus (1:3.26.4-0~ubuntu18.04.1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release: 3.26.4 (LP: #1782681, LP: #1765776)
  * debian/patches/query-add-recursive-flags-and-use-it-in-search-engines.patch,
    debian/patches/0016-search-engine-add-a-recent-search-engine-listing-Gtk.patch,
    debian/patches/0018-search-engine-add-locate-based-search-engine.patch:
    - Follow nautilus settings to search only in current folder (LP: #1767027).
      This doesn't apply to gnome-shell search provider for indexed searches.
  * debian/patches/0017-recent-add-function-to-update-manager-on-file-rename.patch:
    - Updated to respect upstream requested changes
  * debian/patches/nautilusgtkplacesview-show-error-if-volume-is-not-mounted.patch:
    - don't crash if selecting a volume that is not mounted (LP: #1764779)
  * debian/patches/file-view-Always-unset-pending_selection-after-freeing-it.patch:
    - don't crash when try to select a file multiple times in a single run
      (LP: #1713581)
  * debian/patches/Revert-Revert-files-view-Remove-new-empty-folder-name-sug.patch,
    debian/patches/Revert-Revert-nautilus-file-Don-t-show-thumbnails-for-the.patch:
    - Reverts the reverts introduced in 2.26.3.1 as they are in ubuntu already
  * debian/patches/clear_pending_selection.patch,
    debian/patches/git_middle_tab.patch,
    debian/patches/server_list_segfault.patch:
    - Patches removed as they are already applied upstream

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Jul 2018 04:52:45 +0200

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for nautilus has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.