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« on: February 24, 2011, 06:40:29 PM » |
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i tested to search a song in my desktop machine by using the find files/folders app
it didn't found a thing even when it should find 3 options
i tested it on my netbook, i gave it a complete name of a file and the folder it was located but failed identically
what do i need to do that i didn't do on both machines to make this work? maybe a option on the partitions?
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« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2011, 10:02:30 PM » |
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Titus T6us
I just tried the find files/folders app. I set:
Named: santana*
Look in: /
checked include subfolders
clicked Find
and got 3 hits
Also from a terminal:
[earl@new ~]$ su
Password:
[root@new earl]# find / -iname santana*
find: `/home/earl/.gvfs': Permission denied
/mnt/music/Santana-Black_Magic_Woman.mp3
/mnt/music/Santana-Oye_Como_Va.mp3
/mnt/music/Santana-Samba_Pa_Ti.mp3
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« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2011, 10:18:44 PM » |
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ok, so it is something in my installations that i didn't do
using your command in konsole, but i use find /home -iname anameofafile returned this
find: `/home/john/.gvfs': Permission denied
and that was as root
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« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2011, 10:45:43 PM » |
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.gvfs has been a problem that has been around for some time. As root:
umount /home/yourname/.gvfs
rm -rf /home/yourname/.gvfs
Did you find your file with the konsole command?
Earl
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« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2011, 11:00:24 PM » |
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can i unmount /home while using machine?
mine is not a partition, is a folder in /
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« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2011, 12:09:35 AM » |
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can i unmount /home while using machine?
mine is not a partition, is a folder in /
Not /home, but rather ~/.gvfs. The hidden folder in your home directory.  |
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« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2011, 12:25:13 AM » |
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ok, followed your instructions and could remove the .gvfs
will restart machine to see changes but that will have to wait until tomorrow
thank you for your help
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« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2011, 03:43:51 AM » |
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Don't know where he is on your desktop, but I do know where he is on the 17th March
http://www.santana.com/tour/
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« Reply #8 on: February 25, 2011, 10:27:06 AM » |
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delete it ted just used netbook and tried to find a song, it did a search but after a couple of second didn't returned a single result using find in konsole brings the same .gvfs error the command i used worked last night, it deleted .gvfs folder but system recreated it  |
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« Reply #9 on: February 25, 2011, 12:18:13 PM » |
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.gvfs is part of Gnome Virtual File System ... it uses fuse, IIRC, and does create some error when accessed by a non-owner (including root), but they are not critical. T6, you mentioned using find at the command line... ok, so it is something in my installations that i didn't do
using your command in konsole, but i use find /home -iname anameofafile returned this
find: `/home/john/.gvfs': Permission denied
and that was as root
Try: find /home -iname *anameofafile* Instead The wildcards help expand the search... |
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« Reply #10 on: February 25, 2011, 03:48:21 PM » |
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Do you use a separate /Data partition for your data, T6? Do you use symbolics links from, for example, /home/T6/Documents to /Data/Documents, or from /home/T6/Music to /Data/Music? If so, you need to use the -L option to follow symbolic links into directories i.e. find -L -iname <filename> 2>/dev/null
...when you're in your ~/ directory(home dir). The 2>/dev/null will send all the error messages to a black hole, so you won't see the .gvfs error or any other annoying errors, just the name of the file(s) you search for. Of course, you could also just search straight from / and have no need for the -L, but that would take more time. |
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« Reply #11 on: February 25, 2011, 04:26:02 PM » |
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no, i only have 1 partition containing /home and /
anyway, the konsole tool, i don't use
what i use is the find files/folders app and is not working
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« Reply #12 on: February 25, 2011, 04:57:11 PM » |
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Titus T6us
Looking around online - I came across:
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Are you searching for the complete filename including the extension?
If not kfind isn't able to find the file(s) you're looking for.
This annoyance has been in KDE for a long time, even in KDE 3.x if I'm not mistaking.
Luckily the solution is simple, just add wildcards on both sides.
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Try your search with wildcards(*)
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« Reply #13 on: February 25, 2011, 05:05:47 PM » |
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you sir, you are a genius! it was as simple as that!  all i had to do was add a * before and after the word and it gave me 4 correct solutions why i didn't found this info is beyond me thank you! |
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« Reply #14 on: February 25, 2011, 05:33:22 PM » |
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Titus T6us
Glad to be of some help. Even us "old_guy's" stumble over a right answer once in awhile.
Earl
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