locate not giving all results (after distribution upgradtion)

[H.S.Rai]

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:28 PM, H.S.Rai <hardeep.rai at gmail.com> wrote:
> What I found "locate" does not through all expected files / folders.
> This happened after upgradation from 9.10 to 10.04. Even I tried to
> run updatedb
>
> How to find how old is my database. and what I can do to set it
> default setting, as I used to be with earlier version of Ubuntu.

Will it be because I made earlier my home encrypted? If yes, is there
any easy way to make it normal so that I can make use locate.

If not any alternate to this (locate).

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H.S.Rai