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When I use Files to search within a network share, it says:

Remote location - only searching the current folder

Remote location - only searching the current folder

How can I make it search all folders like it normally does? I understand that searching a remote location will take longer, and I still want to do it.

ændrük
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  • Have you tried with find command via terminal? – Raja G Nov 24 '16 at 02:30
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    Yep, successfully searching using a command-line utility demonstrated that a recursive search of this network share is possible and that I was using the correct search terms. It didn't do anything to address the behavior of Files, though. – ændrük Nov 24 '16 at 02:34
  • I didn't get the last part , address behaviour of files.. whats that supposed to mean . Please elaborate – Raja G Nov 24 '16 at 02:42
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    It was a useful workaround but didn't answer the question. – ændrük Nov 24 '16 at 02:43
  • rɑːdʒɑ - OP mentioned Files (the app) not files the objects. – Gary Apr 13 '22 at 20:48

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In newer versions of Ubuntu (in my case 18.04) you can open from Files > Preferences > Search & Preview tab, and check "All locations" under "Search in subfolders".

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Pablo Bianchi
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Mohammed Omer
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  • If you also struggle to find the menu bar. Look at the top left corner. There is an arrow down to open the menu (next to Activities). If you have multiple monitors, check all top left corners, because the menu bar might be nowhere near the application window, and seems to be "missing". – TVK Feb 24 '23 at 10:07
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You can change the Nautilus preferences via dconf-tools, /org/gnome/nautilus/preferences/recursive-search, change the value to 'always'.

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Or on a terminal

gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences recursive-search 'always'
Pablo Bianchi
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A Simarmata Halihiraja
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  • on centos 7 I had to first run sudo yum install dconf-editor then I was able to use dconf-editor to set the above-mentioned setting – SpeedCoder5 Jul 10 '18 at 16:01
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    In this particular case, you can do this with dconf. dconf write /org/gnome/nautilus/preferences/recursive-search "'always'". I prefer this to installing dconf-editor for a one-off modification. The downside is you need to know the valid key values. You can discover the valid values by running gsettings range org.gnome.nautilus.preferences recursive-search – MrMas Jan 16 '19 at 22:25
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In Ubuntu 22.04:
Files > Preferences > Performances section: Set "Search in Subfolders" to "All locations".

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