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Bug 697181 - don't follow symbolic links when searching for files
don't follow symbolic links when searching for files
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File Search Interface
3.8.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-04-03 15:03 UTC by Adam Dingle
Modified: 2013-04-04 20:42 UTC
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Description Adam Dingle 2013-04-03 15:03:43 UTC 
Nautilus currently follows symbolic links when searching for files, and will report search results whose paths (as visible in the Properties dialog) contain symbolic links.  I think this isn't great for several reasons:

1. It's inconsistent with other tools such as the command-line 'find' program, which don't follow symbolic links by default.
2. It can lead to unexpectedly large searches if you have a symbolic link to a large directory.
3. If a search result can be found both via a symlink and not, then I almost always want to see its path reported without the symlink.

I think we should simply not follow symbolic links.
Comment 1 Cosimo Cecchi 2013-04-04 20:42:30 UTC 
I agree with this. You can also still enter the symlinked directory and search in there.
I pushed a patch to git master now.