Files lens doesn't search all files
Bug #1249754 reported by
Nicola Heald
This bug affects 5 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unity |
Triaged
|
Low
|
Unassigned | ||
| unity-lens-files |
Triaged
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
| unity (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
The files lens only returns results for certain files, and I can't see any pattern to it, here's an example:
mikeh@
screenshot_
Search using the files lens for "screenshot" and I get no results. So I figured maybe it doesn't do substring search, but searching for "deen" beings back "GamesdeEnterta
| Changed in unity-lens-files: | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| importance: | Low → Medium |
| Changed in unity: | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
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| GdH (georgdh) wrote | #1 |
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| GdH (georgdh) wrote | #2 |
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| Alex Baggott (alex-baggott) wrote | #3 |
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| Casey (casey-jao) wrote | #4 |
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I suppose this bug is related to locate part of the scope. When you search for some common string, which can be found more than 128 times in your $HOME (including hidden folders - for example web browser cache could be a big source) and user accessible part of the root directory, you get nothing, if it's not already indexed by Zeitgeist. Reasonable solution could be to build per user databases which would contain only relevant data and use these instead of the global one.