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[gnome] Where did my documents go?

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http://ubuntuforums.org – I have installed gnome-shell alongside Unity last night. Now, when I press the super key and type in the key word to pull up some file, I get nothing in the search result. Gnome shell is just pulling up applications. No 'Documents' section, no 'Recent files', etc... I thought it might be an indexing problem, so I manually opened and closed the file through nautilus a couple times. When I tried to do 'Windows/meta key', 'file name', still nothing. I only have 300 MB of personal files on this computer, so I don't think it's an indexing issue. I had a similar problem on another Gnome distrib (Hardware)

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Submitted by colm on 09/23/2012

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I googled arround, but nothing solved my problem.

I want to try Ubuntu (tried different distro's many times before), but none were really to my liking. I always seem to be drawn to Ubuntu, thanks to the PPA's and software. What I don't like is Unity, particularly the Dash.

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[Desktop Entry] Name=Files Comment=Access and organize files Exec=pcmanfm %U Icon=system-file-manager Terminal=false NoDisplay=true Type=Application S