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How To Disable Recursive Search In Nautilus 3.6 or 3.8 [Patch w/ PPA]

<div style="text-align: justify;">The type-ahead find feature was removed from Nautilus starting with version 3.6. Now when typing in a Nautilus (3.6+) window, it performs a search in the current directory and all subdirectories instead of selecting the file or folder that matches what you've typed. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This feature is not that bad except for one thing: searching in subdirectories makes it pretty much unusable at times. If you find this behaviour annoying, you can install Nautilus with a patch created by <a href="https://launchpad.net/~dr3mro">Amr Osman</a> that allows disabling the recursive search so Nautilus only displays files and folders in the current directory, without looking in its subfolders.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The patch allows enabling/disabling recursive search in Nautilus via Dconf so you can easily switch between the two behaviors.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><br />Here's an example:<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy-8lXTeCcJQEQ29DAqah4KNSG4D7TEoILQ0aARCFMo962Ig9VbnS23ilQP8BqytGY4Xa3seN-RYUAA-zd-oe9_O9TboCxfBdd6gX19pUk2zKiOgfglSruc5j5MPRN89m1HsBqswmSToI/s1600/nautilus-recursive-before.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy-8lXTeCcJQEQ29DAqah4KNSG4D7TEoILQ0aARCFMo962Ig9VbnS23ilQP8BqytGY4Xa3seN-RYUAA-zd-oe9_O9TboCxfBdd6gX19pUk2zKiOgfglSruc5j5MPRN89m1HsBqswmSToI/s320/nautilus-recursive-before.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nautilus 3.8 <b>with recursive search</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJF16oy8u7j3Zrexi_sQtdAoNnE6x3WC1PvrYVjrIghRg5Qd5Zt65JiR_cGOwhyKc3Bl0hoZpUMWfv2ShmrmSNYmAGM8H7i8X_2XOr5GYmTFifyeQISH6uhw5Euz7TUgSz1rbGffdiGhI/s1600/nautilus-recursive-after.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJF16oy8u7j3Zrexi_sQtdAoNnE6x3WC1PvrYVjrIghRg5Qd5Zt65JiR_cGOwhyKc3Bl0hoZpUMWfv2ShmrmSNYmAGM8H7i8X_2XOr5GYmTFifyeQISH6uhw5Euz7TUgSz1rbGffdiGhI/s320/nautilus-recursive-after.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nautilus 3.8 <b>without recursive search</b></td></tr></tbody></table>In the example above, I was trying to find/select the <i>genymotion-1.2.1_x64.bin</i> file which I knew I had downloaded in the <i>~/Downloads</i> folder. Using the default Nautilus 3.8 (Ubuntu Saucy), a lot of files show up when typing "gen" which is confusing and makes it harder to spot the file I was looking for. Using the patched Nautilus, only the <i>genymotion</i> folder and the <i>genymotion-1.2.1_x64.bin</i> file show up so I immediately spot the file I was looking for.<br /><br />This may not be the best example, but I'm sure many of you have noticed how annoying the recursive search is in many situations.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you prefer the old type-ahead find feature, unfortunately there's no way of getting it in Nautilus 3.6+, at least not yet. But there are some other alternatives, like downgrading to <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/get-nautilus-34-features-back-in-ubuntu.html" title="Get Nautilus 3.4 Features Back In Ubuntu 13.04 With SolusOS Patched Nautilus">Nautilus 3.4</a>, using <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/12/how-to-install-nemo-file-manager-in.html" title="How To Install Nemo File Manager In Ubuntu">Nemo file manager</a>, etc.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Nautilus patched to allow enabling/disabling recursive search</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To be able to disable recursive search in Nautilus 3.6 or 3.8, you can either patch Nautilus yourself - the patch can be found <a href="https://code.launchpad.net/~dr3mro/nautilus/fix-1164016">HERE</a>, or use Amr Osman's PPA to install an already patched Nautilus.<br /><br /><b>To add the PPA (for Ubuntu 13.04 and 13.10) and upgrade Nautilus, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dr3mro/personal<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get upgrade</code></pre><br />Once Nautilus is upgraded successfully, restart it:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>nautilus -q</code></pre><br />Then, disable recursive search using the following command:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences enable-recursive-search false</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If later on you want to re-enable recursive search, use the command below:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences enable-recursive-search true</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">You can also change this setting via Dconf-editor (make sure dconf-tools is installed: "sudo apt-get install dconf-tools"), by navigating to: <i>org > gnome > nautilus > preferences</i> where you should find the "enable-recursive-search" option.</div><br />

How To Disable Recursive Search In Nautilus 3.6 or 3.8 [Patch w/ PPA]

The type-ahead find feature was removed from Nautilus starting with version 3.6. Now when typing in a Nautilus (3.6+) window, it performs a ...