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I use a handful of files fairly often but Gnome-do can never seem to find them. Documents/foo/Infrastructure/cheat-sheet.txt never comes up when I type "cheat-sheet" though it is right there if I do locate cheat-sheet and I have no trouble bringing up the directory it is in ("Infra..." and it is right there).

What might be going on? Needless to say, this is kind of annoying.

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I'd suggest checking the config for your "Files and Folders" plugin. The "Depth" setting on your Documents folder may not be high enough to get down to that level.

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  • I'm still annoyed. That shouldn't be buried. Do other people not organize work into nested folders? – Amanda Jun 06 '11 at 13:07
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    It's possible that we should increase the default depth for Documents/. The problem that having a depth limit is solving is twofold - memory use and Universe pollution. Do gets progressively less useful the more items it's indexing - it's less likely to bring up the one that you want first - so we tend to try to limit the number of items. – RAOF Aug 15 '11 at 03:32
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Start gnome-do from command line and see if you get any error messages.

There are comments on launchpad where gnome-do did not work due to a plugin going into an error. 2 examples I found: "Could not locate Skype on D-Bus. Make sure Skype is running" and a uTorrent shortcut in '.local/share/applications/wine' that had invalid encoding. Both users found these errors when gnome-do was started from command line and starting skype and removing the invalid torrent file made gnome-do work again.

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