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Hi Jariath,

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 01:26, Jarlath Reidy <jarlathreidy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> To quote myself on the forums here:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1783813
>
> "I want to search for a file and I don't know which of my hard disks it is
> on.
>
> So in Nautilus, I choose the 'Computer' icon from the toolbar and search
> from there. But it seem that from this view you can only search for the
> 'presence' of drives, i.e. find their icons.
>
> I don't think the average user will get this and I certainly don't. How do
> I search for my file without opening a Nautilus window for each drive?"


true.


> It turns out that I needed to choose  "filesystem" - the most cryptically
> labelled entry on the side pane - to get the functionality I was looking
> for. Personally, I think that the behaviour that I was expecting - searching
> from the "Computer" location - makes much more sense. Would this not be far
> better?
>

that's all correct, but i think it's better kept in the Nautilus ML.
Ayatana doesn't have this problem, we are equipped with semantic search in
the Dash, that solves it for us.