[SOLVED] How do you search the file system?

[melchizedek]

How do you search your file system in Mint 5.0? If I remember rightly, under Mint 4.0 there was a "Find" feature found in the Elyssa menu, which you could use to search out files using wildcard symbols......*.wav for example. But I can't seem to find out how to do this in Mint 5.0. Any pointers?

[melchizedek]

You could add to the panel the applet 'Search For Files'. I think this will give you the functionality you are looking for.

EDIT: I should add you could also use 'Tracker' in the Accessories menu, but you need to enable indexing in Trackers preferences (Control Center > Other > Search and Indexing) before it will work.

Bob

Thanks Bob. Tracker took several Millennia to index, but I got there in the end

[Fred]

I have a revolutionary idea! How about using the find command in the CLI?

Example: List all the pictures, searching in the MultiMedia folder and subfolders:

find ./MultiMedia -iname "*.jpg" -or -iname "*.png" -or -iname "*.ttf"

or

Example: Find a document named Auto something in the Data folder.

find ./Data iname "Auto*.odt"

Just an idea.

Fred

[Fred]

Lim-Dul,

Sorry my friend. I couldn't help sprinkling a little salt here and there. The devil made me do it.

Seriously though, It is unusual that you would have to reboot to get it to work, but I don't know anything about tracker except it takes forever to index a large data store.

Glad you got it working ok.

Fred