Nautilus search returns no results for anything outside of my home directory. I've had this problem with both Ubuntu 10.10 Nautilus and the new Nautilus in Gnome 3.2. I asked my friend using Fedora 15 if he had this limitation and he in fact did not. I can use the "Search for Files" dialog to perform the searches, but not Nautilus. What Gnome setting do I need to change?
Update:
It's slightly worse than I feared: Nautilus seems to be employing only Tracker to perform searches and Tracker is being a couch potato. I ran tracker-control -S and it reported that all the miners were idle.
Best Answer
Please make sure that you navigate the nautilus to the parent directory of
/home.For example
File Systemthat you can search all of the file in your machine.To perform search just simply press Ctrl+F.
Please note that: I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with Gnome3 Classic.