GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 687565
Nautilus shell tracker provider not returning results
Last modified: 2013-09-22 18:16:32 UTC
Searching for text files with in gnome-documents does not work, nor from the activities overview. I frequently use plain text files (.txt) as documents, so would like to have them searchable. Even better, allow me to search for any file I want from the overview. I do have tracker installed, and it is working great for other document types. launchpad bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-documents/+bug/1074712
"allow me to search for any file I want from the overview" You can do that if you have Nautilus 3.6 installed. If you're using Ubuntu 12.10, you'll need to use the GNOME3 PPA.
Plain text files are intentionally not displayed by Documents, but they will now show up in the shell search results, as Jeremy points out in comment #1. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 687551 ***
Wrong duplicate, sorry. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 671051 ***
Hm, that's strange. I have Nautilus 3.6 (via the GNOME3 PPA) installed but I cannot search any file I want from the oveview. When I search for something, the only things that ever show under the 'Files' heading in the overview are files and folders directly in my home folder, it does not search within subfolders. I do have Tracker set to index my home folder recursively.
-> nautilus Again, gnome-documents has nothing to do with this :) Does a tool such as tracker-search (from the command line) or tracker-needle display any results? Does Nautilus itself display any results when you search from the application inside of from the shell?
Nautilus is built with "--enable-tracker=no" on Ubuntu.
Ah, that explains then...closing as NOTGNOME. Feel free to forward the report to Launchpad.
I have filed a bug for the file search issue, it is here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/1076232
*** Bug 708494 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***