On 12/09/2017 11:45 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
On 12/09/2017 07:46 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
For the *VAST majority* of my searches, I don't know the folder where
the desired file is. Either I'm researching a problem with an
unfamiliar program or I know that very similar file names exist in
several folders.
I'm not interest in alternatives to "MATE Search Tool" because it is
easy to use various options.
Therefore, I wish to set "Look in folder: to "File System".
How?
Just a guess off the top of my head, but could you us the folder / as
the response to "Look in folder:" ?
That's the desired outcome.
HOWEVER, "MATE Search Tool" takes the "G" in GUI seriously ;/
"Look in folder:" is the label of a drop-down menu.
"File System" is one of the items in that list of labels:
"richard" (/home/richard)
"Desktop" (/home/richard/Desktop)
"File System" (/)
-then a list of the labels of other partitions *mounted/unmounted*
"Other" (a Thunar-like display for choosing a directory)
I have not discovered a pattern in how the default for "Look in folder:"
is determined.
I generally wish to force that entry to be "File System".
TIA
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