How can Ubuntu Dash find files & folders which are not in my home folder?

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Though through dash i can find all my file & folders which are in my home folder partition of my hard disk. But in one of my hard disk partition i have kept all my movies, & i cant never find them. If they appear they only appear as recently played, but i want them to show permanently, like they show from my videos in home folder.

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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This thread might help in your understanding of how this works:

Deeper Unity search indexing

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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answered May 15 '12 at 03:52

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 15 '12 at 15:20

The unity-lens-files has had a fix release in unity-lens-files (5.6.0-0ubuntu1) precise. On the date of this post this release hasn't appeared as an update.

Check the version of the unity-lens-files is below unity-lens-files (5.6.0-0ubuntu1). Instructions can be found here how to install the testing ppa to get all files (at least under home) appearing in lens file searches.

N.B. This is a testing ppa, and should be used with caution.

How can Ubuntu Dash find files & folders which are not in my home folder?

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