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On my computer (running Ubuntu 14.04) Unity's photo lens only searches one subfolder of my Pictures folder.

The strange thing is that there is nothing special about that folder. My photos are organized in folders by year and month in folders named like this:

~/Pictures/Share/yyyy/yyyy-mm/

The photo lens only searches subfolder 2013/2013-06, but not 2013/2013-05 nor 2013/2013-07 nor anything else. The permissions on the searched folder are not different from other folders.

Why might be? What can I do to debug this problem?

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    Execute killall unity-lens-photos and/usr/lib/unity-lens-photos/unity-lens-photos then do a search and add the output in the terminal to your post.
    – Pabi
    Jul 16, 2014 at 13:12
  • I have no process called unity-lens-photos running, and I have no file or directory named /usr/lib/unity-lens-photos. Also, I'm not sure what you mean by doing a search that produces output in a terminal.
    – oz1cz
    Jul 16, 2014 at 14:11
  • Without unity-lens-photos there should be no photo search at all in dash. Run sudo apt-get install unity-lens-photos.
    – Pabi
    Jul 16, 2014 at 14:22
  • unity-lens-photos is installed. If I run dpkg -L unity-lens-photos it lists a number of files and directories, but /usr/lib/unity-lens-photos is not one of them. Anyway, as you can see below, you were right about the problem with importing into shotwell. Thank you for that.
    – oz1cz
    Jul 16, 2014 at 14:35

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The photo lens only searches pictures imported in shotwell and some online apps.
If you got only the 2013/2013-06 folder imported there it won't search other folders.
If you import the other folders as well your problem should be gone.

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  • You nailed it! I had only imported 2013/2013-06 in shotwell. Thank you. Ill will award the bounty as soon as I am able to.
    – oz1cz
    Jul 16, 2014 at 14:33
  • Glad I could help!
    – Pabi
    Jul 16, 2014 at 14:35

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