Re: [ILUG-BOM] Kfind does not search symbolic link directories

On Wednesday 27 June 2007 13:18, Rajen M. Parekh wrote:

On 27/06/07, Rony wrote:

It shows files and folders that are sym links. On double clicking the

Try to find some file which is inside the sym linked folder. For eg. if there is a file foobar.txt inside the symlinked folder, then try to search that file from kfind. See if kfind lists that file in its search result.

common case: cdrom is a symbolic link /media/cdrom which is itself a symbolic link to /media/cdrom0. you can find and open a file in the cdrom with kfind by searching either /cdrom or /media/cdrom.

P.S.: I am using OpenSuse 10.2, KDE- 3.5.5. and all the stock packages which came with the distro.

I use debian sarge.