Failure searching forfile known to exist

From	Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Failure searching forfile known to exist
Date	2017-01-09 07:30 +0100
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Environment: Jessie with Mate DE
Background: Doing an atypical install of SeaMonkey using the 
generic Linux version.

I could not remember where "profiles.ini" was stored. As my 
reference information was on another system, it appeared easier 
to use the search function of the file manager.

I chose "file system" as starting point and entered 
"profiles.ini" in the search bar.
No success whether logged in as a normal user or as root.

The file DOES exist.
the complete path is
/home/richard/.mozilla/seamonkey/profiles.ini

A little experimentation demonstrated that the apparent trigger 
was that the target file was in a "hidden" folder.
As the file manager preferences were set to display hidden files 
and folders, I expected search to actually SEARCH!

Is this a bug or a "feature"?
Is there a work-around?

TIA

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Failure searching forfile known to exist Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-01-09 07:30 +0100
  Re: Failure searching forfile known to exist David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-01-09 15:20 +0100
    Re: Failure searching for file known to exist Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-01-09 16:30 +0100
      Re: Failure searching for file known to exist David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-01-09 23:00 +0100
  Re: Failure searching forfile known to exist Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-01-09 15:20 +0100
    Re: Failure searching forfile known to exist Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-01-09 16:40 +0100
      Re: Failure searching forfile known to exist Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-01-10 00:50 +0100
        Re: Failure searching forfile known to exist Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-01-10 14:30 +0100
          Re: Failure searching forfile known to exist <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-01-10 14:40 +0100

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