[dolphin] [Bug 501503] search cannot find files if starting path has a symbolic link in itself.

[Avraham Hollander]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501503

--- Comment #12 from Avraham Hollander <anhollander516 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to tagwerk19 from comment #9)
> (In reply to Avraham Hollander from comment #6)
> > ... Fedora KDE. Same difference ...
> Where did you create the symlink? In your home folder or down in one of
> Documents, Music, Pictures, Videos?
> 
> Fedora behaves a bit differently. By default it indexes "those four" folders
> and not everything (so not anything you create in your home folder). If you
> have created the symlink under $HOME and you search from $HOME, Dolphin will
> do its own search...
> 
> That *does* follow symlinks (so you should have found hits), it messes up
> and does not find matches in filenames if you are searching for content
> (baaad!) and it only finds content within text files (hmmm, but you can see
> why it has that limit).

I did it in /tmp, just like you did originally.

I have search indexing fully disabled. Maybe that's why it works for me.

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