I have a symlink under "/home/user/Music", which points to "/media/DATA/Music" (NTFS-Drive, which gets mounted on boot for all users). If I go to to "/home/user/Music" with Dolphin and try to search for a file, it never finds any files. If I then try to search under "/media/DATA/Music", it works how it should. The NTFS is mounted like this in fstab: /dev/sdb2 /media/DATA ntfs-3g rw,users,auto 0 0
Do you have baloo disabled, by any chance? I ask because baloo doesn't index external disks.
baloo is enabled and that drive is not excluded. Even if baloo would ignore tge drive, it should still search for a file.
(In reply to Sefa Eyeoglu from comment #0) > I have a symlink under "/home/user/Music", which points to > "/media/DATA/Music" (NTFS-Drive, which gets mounted on boot for all users). > If I go to to "/home/user/Music" with Dolphin and try to search for a file, > it never finds any files. > If I then try to search under "/media/DATA/Music", it works how it should. > > The NTFS is mounted like this in fstab: > /dev/sdb2 /media/DATA ntfs-3g rw,users,auto 0 0 UPDATE: The issue happens with any symlinked folder.
I was fiddling around with this again. Looks like it is not important, which type of partition the symlink points to. If I create a symlink TO a mounted folder (like /media/user/MyDrive) and a search is started (with Ctrl+F) it does not find anything. If I then navigate to the drive it works.
usually dolphin-FIND does not work at all, here is the solution: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395255
As I don't have this problem anymore and don't have the same use-case anymore I will close this report and set it to NEEDSINFO