Search for Files... fails if searching File System

Is working in my Ubuntu 9.10 32bits...

Hth

Very interesting - and confirmed. (amd_64)
Nothing at all found here, made a sqw.txt, made a testfile.txt, put it in /home/user/any_folder and even updated Nautilus.
Although it was found on CLI with 'find -name testfile.txt', but not with locate.
And this gave the hint ;-)
Update database:
sudo updatedb

Now it will be found in /home/user, /home/user/any_folder and /.

Thanks to the ultimative CLI.
http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/03/15-practical-linux-find-command-examples/

btw. my database was from 23th of Dec, because my uptime whith hibernation is 18 days.
/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db

Correction: 23th = 23rd

Thanks, Sam, good work.

According to the Ubuntu Manual, "Search for Files uses the find, grep, and locate UNIX commands. By default, when performing a basic search Search for Files first uses the locate command, and then uses the slower but more thorough find command."

Since I don't see a bug report on this, I filed bug report 506219.

HOWEVER, it got (automatically?) filed under the 'yelp' component, which I suspect is not correct. Do you have any insight on this?

OK, got it. It's in gnome-utils.

In BIG RED LETTERS:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/

Since all the package searching tools failed completely at this, SOMEBODY PLEASE, PLEASE PUT THIS IN THE WIKI, WHERE A MERE MORTAL HAS A CHANCE OF IDENTIFYING A PACKAGE NAME?? Pretty please?

Never mind. I'll start a separate question on this. Thanks much for your help.

> OK, got it. It's in gnome-utils.

Good job also from you to find the right package.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/gnome-utils

Have to admit I didn't look in Ubuntu Manual (yelp), but now I did.
It took a while also till I've found '..search files' in section 'gnome main menu'.
Wouldn't it be an idea to mention the related package in each section of Ubuntu Manual?

Since I appreciate CLI I've found it easier with:
$apt-cache search search-tool* |less
gnome-utils - GNOME Desktop-Hilfsprogramme (english=desktop utilities)
tracker-search-tool - metadata database, indexer and search tool - GNOME frontend
qsearch-tools - qsearch machine-learning command-line utilities
## I don't have tracker and qsearch-tools installed, hence it is gnome-utils.

I'm not familiar enough with the organization of yelp (which I had not heard of until this thread) to answer your question directly. But I will say that things need to be better labeled just about everywhere. Even to install programs with Synaptic can take quite a bit of guesswork or detective work, because the names are all so cryptic, often inconsistent, and seldom cross-referenced.

So yes, I think it's a great idea to include package and executable file names wherever it's applicable in all documentation. I can't imagine how computer newbies could ever navigate through this stuff.

I must say you're very creative about tracking down documentation and package names. :-)

P.S. I'm still pretty much a Linux newbie, although I'm an RSX-11/M /DOS/Windows veteran, up to a point. I very much appreciate your help.