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unity dash file search results are not shown in "home search lens"

Asked by tellapu

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.org/showthread.php?t=1853156
sudo apt-get install --reinstall unity unity-common unity-lens-applications unity-lens-files unity-lens-gwibber unity-lens-music unity-place-applications unity-place-files unity-scope-musicstores unity-services unity-2d unity-2d-launcher unity-2d-launcher unity-2d-panel unity-2d-places unity-2d-spread unity-asset-pool unity-greeter
And restarted the computer, but no success.

I also tried to stop, delete activity and restart zeitgeist:
askubuntu.com/questions/43097/unity-search-not-working

Thanks for fast help, because I use this feature multiple times an hour.

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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/share/zeitgeist/
rm -rvf fts.index/
zeitgeist-daemon

Hopefully this will help somebody else in the future as well.

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Michal Predotka (mpredotka) said : 		#2

tellapu, thanks for the tip. I had the same problem with files search.

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tellapu (tellapu) said : 		#3

Hi mmiicc! Great, you are welcome.

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Anita (a-lewis) said : 		#4

tellapu, thanks! I've been searching on this for over a month and you gave me the fix!

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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.

-----Original Message-----
From: Anita <email address hidden>
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Subject: Re: [Question #185085]: unity dash file search results are not
shown in "home search lens"
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:10:52 -0000

Your question #185085 on unity changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/unity/+question/185085

Anita posted a new comment:
tellapu, thanks! I've been searching on this for over a month and you
gave me the fix!

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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.

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tellapu (tellapu) said : 		#7

Hi Sorin,
Sorry I don't know an answer to this question, but perhaps somebody
else ...

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Sorin Sbarnea (ssbarnea) said : 		#8

Never mind, I switched to kubuntu as Unity seems extremely unstable and resource eater.

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tellapu (tellapu) said : 		#9

Have you tried Ubuntu 12.04? It is said it runs smoother and quicker,
even with Unity.