Public bug reported: Binary package hint: nautilus
Hello, I have Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) fully updated (not upgraded to Hardy yet for other reasons - I like Firefox 2.x). I run it on a Dell Dimension 4700 desktop. I also have a Western Digital (WD) "My Book" 1 TB (one terabyte) external USB Hard Disk (this model has no other connectors, only USB). Applications > System Tools > Storage shows SCSI device: scsi 8: Vendor: WD, Model: 10EACS External. It uses the vfat file system. It auto-mounts on start-up, restart, resume from suspend or resume from hibernate, or when I plug it in I can read to it and write from it without problems (see Note below, though). My main problem is that when I try to search it for files in Nautilus using the Search icon or Go > Search for Files, I always get no results. For example, searching for *.AVI or *.avi brings up nothing, though the files are there. Nautilus does not even seem to try to read the USB drive, as it does not "wake up" (it is on standby whenever it is not used for a few minutes). The same goes for Places > Search for files from the top GNOME panel. No matter what options I select, either Name contains, or Name matches regular expression: *.AVI or *.avi does not find any files. At least this utility seems to try to read the USB drive as it "wakes up," but the search finds nothing. I keep my family photos and videos on the USB HD (no room on internal HD -- yes, I know, I take lots of photos and videos). Being unable to search this drive was a major inconvenience when trying to find in which folder I had a particular video, for example. I thought that maybe the factory-default volume name for the USB drive, "My Book" -- note the space between the words -- was the problem, as some command-line utilities cannot handle names with spaces. I changed the name using mtools to MY_BOOK and re-mounted it, as per https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RenameUSBDrive . But Nautilus searching still did not work. After lots of Googling, I finally found a workaround: use Kfind instead of Nautilus for searching USB drives. (Thanks go to Shudder from the Arstechnica OpenForum at http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/96509133/m/211008250931?r=211008250931#211008250931 ) Kfind works properly (and quickly) using the same search (*.AVI). It finds video files in any folder or sub-folder on the USB drive. Why does Nautilus not do the same? Thanks in advance for your help. Note: Trying to Right click the USB drive > Unmount Volume from the Desktop results in the icon disappearing, but then I get an error message: Cannot unmount volume: Cannot unmount the volume MY_BOOK > Details: Cannot remove directory. I don't know if this is related to the above issue with Nautilus. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Sun May 11 07:25:26 2008 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus NonfreeKernelModules: vmnet vmmon ath_hal Package: nautilus 1:2.20.0-0ubuntu7.1 PackageArchitecture: i386 ProcCmdline: nautilus --sm-config-prefix /nautilus-GHYltQ/ --sm-client-id 117f000101000120277906400000079440002 --screen 0 --load-session /home/dan/.nautilus/saved-session-6DLI6T ProcCwd: /home/dan ProcEnviron: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: nautilus Uname: Linux U-desktop 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux ** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug -- Nautilus Does Not Search USB Drive but Kfind Works Well https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/229228 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
