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Bug 687565 - Nautilus shell tracker provider not returning results
Nautilus shell tracker provider not returning results
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File Search Interface
3.6.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
: 708494 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-11-04 14:12 UTC by Aaron Brubacher
Modified: 2013-09-22 18:16 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Aaron Brubacher 2012-11-04 14:12:49 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
Comment 1 Jeremy Bicha 2012-11-04 15:32:13 UTC
"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.
Comment 2 Cosimo Cecchi 2012-11-05 15:38:51 UTC
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 ***
Comment 3 Cosimo Cecchi 2012-11-05 15:39:15 UTC
Wrong duplicate, sorry.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 671051 ***
Comment 4 Aaron Brubacher 2012-11-06 21:26:39 UTC
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.
Comment 5 Cosimo Cecchi 2012-11-06 21:49:29 UTC
-> 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?
Comment 6 Jeremy Bicha 2012-11-06 21:57:12 UTC
Nautilus is built with "--enable-tracker=no" on Ubuntu.
Comment 7 Cosimo Cecchi 2012-11-06 22:02:15 UTC
Ah, that explains then...closing as NOTGNOME. Feel free to forward the report to Launchpad.
Comment 8 Aaron Brubacher 2012-11-08 05:26:22 UTC
I have filed a bug for the file search issue, it is here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/1076232
Comment 9 António Fernandes 2013-09-22 18:16:32 UTC
*** Bug 708494 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***