locate can't find files?
MR ZenWiz
mrzenwiz at gmail.com
Sat May 14 01:37:54 UTC 2022
I'm running Xubuntu 22.04 upgraded from 21.10. The most recent
updated to locate fails to find a number of files I have in a fairly
well-known location. Also, the man page for locate talks about
placate and there is no man page for locate AFAICT.
What happened?
FTR, placate also can't find the files.
I did just run the software updater, but I wouldn't think the kernel
would mess this up.
Any clues?
Here's what happens:
18:19 [admar at marbase:~/Downloads] $ locate ImprovicusM
18:23 [admar at marbase:~/Downloads] $ locate Improvicus
/home/admar/Documents/ImprovicusCommentsonSpeechesK1017.odt
/home/admar/Documents/toastmasters/ImprovicusCharterApp-Mark.pdf
/home/admar/Documents/toastmasters/ImprovicusCharterApp-Patricia.pdf
/home/admar/Documents/toastmasters/ImprovicusCharterApp.pdf
/home/admar/Documents/toastmasters/ImprovicusCharterMember-Page-2.pdf
/home/admar/Documents/toastmasters/ImprovicusCharterMemberApp-Mark-1.pdf
/home/admar/Documents/toastmasters/ImprovicusCharterMemberApp-Patricia-1.pdf
/home/admar/Documents/toastmasters/ImprovicusCharterMemberApplication.pdf
/home/admar/Documents/toastmasters/ImprovicusL0814.flac
/home/admar/Documents/toastmasters/ImprovicusLists.odt
/home/admar/Documents/toastmasters/TableTopicsTipsImprovicus07-25-20.pptx
18:23 [admar at marbase:~/Downloads] $ ls /htera/Videos/Improvicus/
chat-M0507-Improvicus.txt* ImprovicusL1106.mp4 ImprovicusM0409.mp4
chats-all.zip ImprovicusL1113.mp4 ImprovicusM0409-screenshot.jpg
ImprovicusL0703.flac ImprovicusL1120.mp4 ImprovicusM0423.mp4
ImprovicusL0710.flac ImprovicusL1204.mp4 ImprovicusM0430.mp4
ImprovicusL0717.flac ImprovicusL1211.mp4 ImprovicusM0507.mp4
ImprovicusL0724.flac ImprovicusL1218.mp4 ImprovicusM0821-01.png
ImprovicusL0731.mp4 ImprovicusLists.odt ImprovicusM0821-02.png
ImprovicusL0807.flac ImprovicusM0108.mp4 ImprovicusM0821-03.png
ImprovicusL0821.flac ImprovicusM0121.mp4 ImprovicusM0821-04.png
ImprovicusL0904.flac ImprovicusM0129.mp4 ImprovicusNewsletter1.ott
ImprovicusL0904.mp4 ImprovicusM0205.mp4 ImprovicusNewsletter.ott
ImprovicusL0911.flac ImprovicusM0212.mp4 ImprovicusNewsletterTemplate.odt
ImprovicusL0911.mp4 ImprovicusM0219.mp4 Improvicus-OfficerMeet_7-31-21.flac
ImprovicusL0918.mp4 ImprovicusM0226.mp4 Improvicus-OfficersMeetAgenda.pdf
ImprovicusL0925.mp4 ImprovicusM0305.mp4 ImprovicusWarmUps.docx
ImprovicusL1002.mp4 ImprovicusM0312.mp4
ImprovicusL1009.mp4 ImprovicusM0319.mp4
ImprovicusL1016.mp4 ImprovicusM0326.mp4
ImprovicusL1023.mp4 ImprovicusM0402.mp4
(I redacted a couple of files, but they don't contain the pattern.)
Mark
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