I have a SSD for my root partition and use a HDD under /data/ and use system links in my home directory for file heavy directories such as:
/data/home/user/Documents > linked to /home/user/Documents
/data/home/user/Downloads > linked to /home/user/Downloads
etc.
In Ubuntu 17.10, GNOME does not follow these system links when indexing files for GNOME Search. It only seems to index files/dirs which are located below /home/user/.
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I'm trying to figure out how to index files in other directories, so they show up in GNOME Search. I would assume I would be able to add custom directories within the search settings. I've also been looking around in dconf but cannot find anything.
Best Answer
Heh, actually the configuration wizard does exist, but by default it's not installed by Ubuntu (as of 17.10). You have to install "tracker" and maybe a couple other applets (?), look for it in synaptic.