[xubuntu-users] Catfish search problems and finding files

[Lee Gold]

Thanks, that's really helpful. updatedb and locate are so fast it's amazing. 


 >Re: [xubuntu-users] Catfish search problems and finding files
 >From: "Brett Murch" <brettmurch at gmail.com>   [ Save address | Block sender | This Is Spam ]
 >To: Xubuntu Help and User Discussions <xubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Hi Lee,
 >
With catfish I think that there is a option to use locate or slocate
 >instead of find. I would try those first as they will find files and
 >folders better. I think that catfish uses find. try that and if it
 >doesn't work you may just need to update the database which is easy to
 >do.
 >
It kind indexes your drive manually like what you were saying that you
 >wanted.
 >
If you really want to find where things are located then the terminal is
 >I think the best place to look. When you open a terminal and type sudo
 >updatedb that "indexes" your files. Then you can type locate and the
 >files and folders that you are looking for.
 >
When it lists the files it also lists the path that they are in, like if
 >you wanted to find a folder called music. Type locate music in a
 >terminal and it will bring back something like
 >
/home/username/music
 >/opt/music
 >
and so on and so on.
 >
try those and see how you go.
 >

 >On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 16:55 -0400, Lee Gold wrote:
 >> I have Python IDE called Idle installed.  I want to find a folder 
 >> or file called:  idleib
 >>
 >> 9.04
 >>
 >> I put it in Catfish and have File System as the search target. It 
 >> might take a long time but I think it would find something. Instead 
 >> I get "Fatal error search aborted" after a few seconds.
 >>
 >> I'm having trouble locating things in Xubuntu. In XP I know it'll 
 >> be either under C:\Python26 or in Program Files. In Linux I have no 
 >> idea at this point. Also the searching seems not to be robust. In 
 >> XP even though I have the indexing turned off, a search will in my 
 >> experience be robust and "grind" it out to find the file or folder. 
 >> What's up with this "fatal error" in Catfish?
 >>
 >> Is there a place in Synaptic which keeps a record of where things 
 >> are installed? Is there some way I can find out where things are 
 >> installed? I could learn this by using Catfish a lot - but it has 
 >> to be robust and simple. Folders(dirs) files - any object should be 
 >> found. Are there Catfish alternatives or is the problem not 
 >> Catfish? Also I prefer not to have indexing running in background, 
 >> I just want a search or run indexing manually when I want if 
 >> that'll help.
 >>
 >> Thanks
 

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