Search for file name in Dolphin

[Alan Dacey (grokit)]

On Monday, August 04, 2014 8:41:06 AM Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> Hi, Doug
> 
> Em domingo, 03 de agosto de 2014, às 20:36:05, Doug escreveu:
> > On 08/03/2014 08:08 PM, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Is there a way to do a search for a file name in Dolphin, without using
> > > desktop search? For some reason, nothing is ever found when a search for
> > > anything and I really don't need desktop search. I only need a simple, old
 . . . snip
> desktop search, so I didn't bother trying to find out what's wrong with it. If 
> possible, I'd rather disable desktop search and go for a simple file system 
> search, like in the old days. Is it possible?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Marcelo
> 
> 

Finding files in Dolphin is extremely buggy.  Drives me nuts at times, especially when somebody is looking at the shiny KDE computer hooked up to my TV and they can't even find a movie that is on the disk.  On my main computer Dolphin can only find a file if it is in the folder being searched, subfolders are entirely invisible.  I really hope this is fixed in Plasma 5, I'm really sick of it.

I like using the 'locate' command.  It finds everything so you may want to pipe the output through grep.  locate keeps a db of the file names, update it with the 'sudo updatedb' command.

Alan
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