[ubuntu-uk] Unity Dash fails to find files or folders

[Alan Pope]

On 13 February 2014 09:03, Gordon Burgess-Parker
<gordon at gbpcomputing.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm using 13.10.I have a file called "Shopping.ods". If I type
> "Shopping" into the Unity Dash search, it finds NOTHING.
> If I type "Shopping" into Nautilus search it finds the file IMMEDIATELY.
> Is this a bug in 13.10 Unity?
>

Have you ever opened the file before? The Dash search is based in part
on zeitgeist, which tracks which files you use, and provides results
based on that data.

I happen to have a bunch of files with shopping in the name which it
finds for me (admittedly on 14.04, not 13.10), so I don't think the
name is special.

Cheers,
Al.