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Re: Failure searching forfile known to exist

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On Mon 09 Jan 2017 at 00:23:47 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> 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.

What 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?

Cheers,
David.

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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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