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I love the Unity dash and lenses, but it only finds files that are under /home/mylogin
I would like it to find files that are under /media/MyWindowsDrive/Users/MyWinLogin
I tried creating a link to the Music, Pictures and Video folders on my Windows driver and putting the link in the corresponding folders in /home/mylogin , but this doesn't cause Ubuntu (the dash) to index and find these files.
Is this possible?
Aking 1012 was right, almost. You have to change both the folder name and the .lens name in the folder for the change to take effect.
Head to /usr/share/unity/lenses:
gksu nautilus /usr/share/unity/lenses
Rename both the lens folder and the .lens file to change their alphabetical order, e.g.:
recoll --> yrecoll
and
recoll.lens --> yrecoll.lens
I found that editing the default lenses was quite buggy and resulted in some scopes being disabled. That's why I settled for editing my custom lenses only. This is the result for yrecoll and zwikipedia:
Install dconf-editor using synaptic
Uninstall these packets using synaptic :
unity-lens-friends
unity-scope-calculator
Open dconf-editor
Go to >> com >> canonical >> unity >> dash
Set the value :
['home.scope', 'applications.scope', 'files.scope']
After that :
Turn off computer
Turn on computer
Best Answer
You can perhaps index the files on a different drive using tracker-gui
.
Install it using the following command:
After installing it, open it and go to Locations tab. Click on the + button and add whichever drive or specific directory that you want to index.
It goes without saying that the drive has to be mounted already to be able to be indexed.