Comment 53 for bug 646724

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Seif Lotfy (seif) wrote : Re: [Bug 646724] Re: not all files show up in files-place

You can get it from lp:activity-log-manager (trunk)
it works like charm here. Can you test it?
make sure you backup your zeitgeist directory "cp ~/.local/share/zeitgeist
~/.local/share/zeitgeist-backup"
give us feedback on #zeitgeist so we can finish this.
Cheers
Seif

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Christoph Buchner <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Seif, what happened to the "dig up the past" button you mentioned
> further up? Is this coming? I remember seeing a mock-up screenshot
> somewhere, but I don't have it in activity-log-manager 0.8.0 from the
> zeitgeist ppa.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/646724
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> Title:
> not all files show up in files-place
>
> Status in Unity:
> Triaged
> Status in Unity 2D:
> Triaged
> Status in Unity Files Lens:
> Triaged
> Status in Zeitgeist Framework:
> Invalid
> Status in Zeitgeist Data-Sources:
> Invalid
> Status in “unity-place-files” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in “zeitgeist” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> The Unity interface, with its files-place feature for user access to
> files/documents etc. is really great.
>
> However there is a problem since the search feature relies wholly on
> zeitgeist (AFAIK), in the zeitgeist is not tracking everything.
>
> E.g. in openoffice, I create a new file (or open an existing one) from
> within openoffice itself. This file does not show up, presumably
> because openoffice does not (yet) push its activity to zeitgeist.
>
> I guess any number of other programs could suffer the same problem.
>
> For the average user, this is surely going to be confusing. They will
> create documents via legitimate means ('New ...' buttons in their
> applications), and then expect to be able to search for them in the
> Unity files-place interface.
>
> To avoid this confusion I would guess there really needs to be a
> filesystem watcher on the home dir (or key folders within it) so that
> zeitgeist is aware of activity caused by non-zeitgeist-aware
> applications.
>
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