unity dash file search results are not shown in "home search lens"
Since yesterday or two days ago, the main unity dash search does not show any files&folder results in the "home search lens" anymore. The applications, music, utilities (place with map, weather, ...) are shown without any problems. The files&folder-lens is present and when I switch to the files&folder-lens the recent files are shown, but it would not always search correctly.
I re-installed the lenses according to this post:
ubuntuforums.
sudo apt-get install --reinstall unity unity-common unity-lens-
And restarted the computer, but no success.
I also tried to stop, delete activity and restart zeitgeist:
askubuntu.
Thanks for fast help, because I use this feature multiple times an hour.
Question information
- Language:
- English Edit question
- Status:
- Solved
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- Unity Edit question
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- Solved by:
- tellapu
- Solved:
- 2012-01-20
- Last query:
- 2012-01-20
- Last reply:
tellapu (tellapu) said : | #1 |
As nobody wants to help me ;-) , I installed synapse, still less bugier ;-). But it could not present me any files as well. I remembered I had a zeitgeist problem with synapse in the past. Fortunately I wrote the commands down and they worked:
To fix it open a terminal and run these commands:
zeitgeist-daemon --quit
cd ~/.local/
rm -rvf fts.index/
zeitgeist-daemon
Hopefully this will help somebody else in the future as well.
Michal Predotka (mpredotka) said : | #2 |
tellapu, thanks for the tip. I had the same problem with files search.
tellapu (tellapu) said : | #3 |
Hi mmiicc! Great, you are welcome.
Anita (a-lewis) said : | #4 |
tellapu, thanks! I've been searching on this for over a month and you gave me the fix!
tellapu (tellapu) said : | #5 |
Hi Anita! Great this post helped you as well, the ubuntu community is
great. Anita sounds like a female user, wonderful! Take care, tellapu.
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Subject: Re: [Question #185085]: unity dash file search results are not
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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:10:52 -0000
Your question #185085 on unity changed:
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Anita posted a new comment:
tellapu, thanks! I've been searching on this for over a month and you
gave me the fix!
Sorin Sbarnea (ssbarnea) said : | #6 |
Is the zeitgeist-daemon supposed not to return? In my case last line is "Commiting FTS index". I added a & at the end.
Still, even after doing this, I'm not able to find anything with Unity dash.
Note: my home directory is on NFS, but it worked initially but not anymore.
tellapu (tellapu) said : | #7 |
Hi Sorin,
Sorry I don't know an answer to this question, but perhaps somebody
else ...
Sorin Sbarnea (ssbarnea) said : | #8 |
Never mind, I switched to kubuntu as Unity seems extremely unstable and resource eater.
tellapu (tellapu) said : | #9 |
Have you tried Ubuntu 12.04? It is said it runs smoother and quicker,
even with Unity.