So, one thing that’s been slowing down my screenshot review is that I’m writing an accompanying article on the advantages of BeOS. And I’ve been using Haiku alongside my Mac and Gnu/Linux for years now, so I’m no one new to it, and haven’t had this problem before… but I created a contact in People and the attributes inside (address, nickname, etc.) aren’t recognized in the search results from the Find box.
But in Tracker, they all appear.
But in Terminal (lsindex and listattr /boot/home/people/Example) they appear.
What the heck am I missing? I’ve left the system open for hours, restarted it, hit Identify on the file, and yet despite all I see, Find cannot find anything inside it. Do I need to run mkindex here or what am I missing? In the past, I haven’t had to do this, afaik, but I guess I am asking the experts what BeFS feature I’m not utilizing here. I’ve filed this under Be, as it’s a BeOS question. Could test this same ‘person’ on Haiku and see if it does the same thing.
janus2: I couldn’t find where to select Person; I see it now – it’s the “All files and folders” drop-down. My bad.
humdinger: Yes, lsindex lists the META attributes. I can definitely try replacing the people folder and trying again. You’re right, I don’t see reindex on BeOS, either. Just mkindex.
extrowerk: yes, the file is on said disk, attributes are enabled, and the attributes in question, afaik, are in the index.
Everyone, dilemma solved! @humdinger had the solution! I duplicated the people folder, removed the old one, made ‘people copy’ the ‘people’ folder, and restarted the computer. Started Find again, and eureka, it found the missing example file/attributes! For whatever reason, I guess there was a glitch in the FS. Never seen this before.
