This seemed to help but the dash is still not searching files. It however does search folders.
Document Directory searches fine.
Download directory doesn't search correctly even though I just just added items (I did open the items because I read unity doesn't index items unless they are opened).
Things I have tried:
rm ~/.cache/software-center -R
unity --reset &
Download Directory contains:
/home/username/Downloads/Untitled Folder
/home/username/Downloads/empty
/home/username/Downloads/world
/home/username/Downloads/test.pdf
Searching the dash with the keyworld "Downloads" yields: 1 folder "Downloads"
Document Directory Contains:
/home/username/Documents/HELLOWORLD
/home/username/Documents/EmptyDoc
/home/username/Documents/HelloWorld.java
/home/username/Documents/tryingtosearch
Searching the dash with the keyworld "Documents" yields: 1 folder "Documents":
/home/username/Documents/HELLOWORLD
/home/username/Documents/EmptyDoc
/home/username/Documents/HelloWorld.java
but "tryingtosearch" is not there. Is this a file indexing issue?
If it matters I did run this code previously:
gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Lenses disabled-scopes "['more_suggestions-amazon.scope', 'more_suggestions-u1ms.scope', 'more_suggestions-populartracks.scope', 'music-musicstore.scope', 'more_suggestions-ebay.scope', 'more_suggestions-ubuntushop.scope', 'more_suggestions-skimlinks.scope']"
and this code:
sudo apt-get remove unity-webapps*
^This messed up my desktop and I had to fix it. I don't recall what command I used to fix it but I think it was this: sudo dconf reset -f /org/compiz/
This seemed to fix it:
sudo updatedb
Should I really have to run that each time though? Obviously one could create a bash script but that is disappointing if one has to run that each time.
I have tried the solutions on this page:
updatedb
is automatically run once a day. You only have to run it manually when you need to update it immediately.