Odd locate behavior

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

MR ZenWiz wrote:
>Little Girl wrote:

>> Have you done sudo updatedb to update the locate database?

>Automatically when I open any new terminal, and on demand when I move
>files around or delete them.

Well, you're even more thorough than I am on that, so it's definitely
not the issue.

>The files are there - ls shows them. Locate cannot see them, but it
>seems to see most of my other folders and files.

It's interesting. I figured it could be because they're soft links
rather than actually being there, but I just tried that by creating a
soft link and putting it elsewhere and locate was able to find both
locations, so that's not it, either.

-- 
Little Girl

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