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Bug 692352 - Recursive search is not efficient
Recursive search is not efficient
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 663242
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
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-01-23 03:56 UTC by mahrud
Modified: 2013-03-09 17:02 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description mahrud 2013-01-23 03:56:54 UTC 
The recursive search in nautilus is too slow, especially if you have some projects with many files and folders.

Previously one could type in the first few letters of a file or folder and select it or press enter to open it, but now it takes forever to finish the search.

Recursive search would be more useful if one could restrict it to few folders (e.g: Documents, Musics, etc.) instead of the whole home directory.
Comment 1 André Klapper 2013-01-23 12:03:20 UTC 
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug.
This bug report isn't very useful because it doesn't describe the bug well. If you have time and can still reproduce the bug, please read http://bugzilla.gnome.org/bug-HOWTO.html and add a more useful description to this bug, by providing numbers (seconds) for specific testcases, hardware information (how fast is your computer), and distribution information (to know which tools are used here). 
Currently, "too slow" is too vague to investigate, unfortunately.
Thanks in advance!
Comment 2 António Fernandes 2013-03-09 17:02:52 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> The recursive search in nautilus is too slow, especially if you have some
> projects with many files and folders.
> 
> Previously one could type in the first few letters of a file or folder and
> select it or press enter to open it, but now it takes forever to finish the
> search.

With Nautilus 3.8, search results will be incrementally loaded [bug 663242]. This means that you will get results from current folder as soon as possible, while the recursive search is still in progress.

> Recursive search would be more useful if one could restrict it to few folders
> (e.g: Documents, Musics, etc.) instead of the whole home directory.

With GNOME 3.8, you will be able to configure from Search Settings which directories to index with tracker.


I think these features will solve the issues reported and will make your searching experience efficient. Please feel free to reopen if you see the same problem in version 3.8. Thanks for taking the time to report this bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 663242 ***