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[Sean Fitzpatrick <sean.fitzpatrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I noticed an issue today related to the problem of indexing files to make them searchable in Unity: I have a laptop at work and a desktop at home that are both synced via Ubuntu One. If I decide to reorganise files on one computer, Ubuntu One will execute the same reorganisation on the other computer, but on the second one, I'll lose access to the files via the Unity Dash.  (In my case I have documents for a course I'm teaching right now - tests, assignments, handouts, etc. - and again in the next semester, so I've added a date hierarchy to my folder structure.)
What's the current state of affairs? Will Unity update its file indexing, or will these files only make their way back in as I access them again from Nautilus? It would be nice to be able to move files around on synced computers without breaking the ability to search via the Unity Dash. (Now that I'm used to the dash, it feels like a huge pain to have to open up Nautilus and click my way through the folders!)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/646724

Title:
  not all files show up in files-place

Status in Unity:
  Fix Released
Status in Unity 2D:
  Fix Released
Status in Unity Files Lens:
  Fix Released
Status in Zeitgeist Framework:
  Invalid
Status in Zeitgeist Data-Sources:
  Invalid
Status in “unity-lens-files” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “zeitgeist” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  The Unity interface, with its files-place feature for user access to
  files/documents etc. is really great.

  However there is a problem since the search feature relies wholly on
  zeitgeist (AFAIK), in the zeitgeist is not tracking everything.

  E.g. in openoffice, I create a new file (or open an existing one) from
  within openoffice itself. This file does not show up, presumably
  because openoffice does not (yet) push its activity to zeitgeist.

  I guess any number of other programs could suffer the same problem.

  For the average user, this is surely going to be confusing. They will
  create documents via legitimate means ('New ...' buttons in their
  applications), and then expect to be able to search for them in the
  Unity files-place interface.

  To avoid this confusion I would guess there really needs to be a
  filesystem watcher on the home dir (or key folders within it) so that
  zeitgeist is aware of activity caused by non-zeitgeist-aware
  applications.

  (See also bug 897393, about warning users that the search doesn't
  search all files.)

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