"On this Computer" does not follow symlinks

same here: I'm symlinking my personal folders containing large amount of data (Music, Video) to another partition (easier for reinstalling the system for example). The music however is found by the music lens, Video is not found by the video lens (both on the same partition)

Hi,
I'm aware of the issue and looking for the best way to solve this.
Thank you for your patience, as I can't promise it will be fixed for 12.04.

Thanks David. Hope it'll come in an update if not in the intial release! Thanks for your work! It's pretty nice ;)

@zarquon42,

Just a correction I would lieke to make to your comment. Music Lens actually doesn't follow symlinks. It searches a database created by the music player (whether it be Rhythmbox, Banshee, Clementine, etc.), which IN TURN might follow symlinks, but the lens itself doesn't. What I think would be a better example and worth noting wouldbe the new (or old? not sure) Files Lens. It does follow symlinks.

David,
Maybe looking into the Files Lens would offer a clue on how to fix this bug.

Hope it helps! :)

This is also true for mountet ext4 Filesystems.
As I run my system from ssd, I mount my data like this
sudo mount --bind /srv/markus/Videos /home/markus/Videos
unity-lens-video shows nothing. It refuses indexing.

I marked this bug as affecting me, although I'm not interested in following symlinks. I am however interested in having the lens show a public, shared video folder as well as my ~/Videos/ folder.

Derek,

In my opinion, the way to do that would be to create a symlink to the public video inside your personal Video folder.

Sincerely,
kroq-gar78

The main part of my videos are always stored in "~/Downloads". Video lens should at least index and show results also from "Downloads" folder in "My Videos" section of the lens. It is a big lack of productivity as it is now.