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Got KDE to work, but having the same problem

  Date: Feb 12    Category: Unix / Linux / Ubuntu    Views: 347
  


When I search for '9.jpg', I find 10 million files with '9 in their names.

There are only 26 letters in the alphabet, an 10 numerals. Are you seriously
telling me that Linux cannot handle more than 26+10=36 files?

Thirty-six? Seriously?

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Answer #1    Answered On: Feb 12    

Are you for real or a troll?

You are repeating yourself. Solutions have been provided. They work. Use a
different file manager such as Konqueror or work from the terminal.

YOU say that Linux finds "10 million files". Then YOU ask why Linux cannot
handle more than 36 files. Isn't 10 million more than 36? By your own words
you contradict yourself.

This is getting tiresome. You risk being ignored (certainly by me) and
possibly banned if you continue to ask without trying what is proposed.

Of course, Linux can handle more than 36 files. It can handle longer file
names than Windows and can differentiate file types without any suffixes.
You do not need .jpg as part of the file name and Linux still knows that it
is a jpg. Try that in Windows.

Things that you have not done:

tried the terminal
tried Konqueror
tried a photo manager
tried asking different questions
tried listening

Things that you have succeed at:

repeating yourself
asking rhetorical and possibly argumentative questions

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Answer #2    Answered On: Feb 12    

No, Linux can handle a theoretically unlimited number of files very
efficiently, but needs a trained operator to make it work.

What you need is not better search tools but a good filter tool. A filter
excludes (filters out) all files that don't match your pattern, in other
words if you search for ee.jpg you get all files that contain that "string"
in their name. When you filter it eliminates everything which doesn't
exactly match your target.

In short, you need a sieve to let you eliminate the water and keep the
spaghetti! What you are doing now is like using a bucket and wondering why
the unwanted data (water) isn't going away.

There are many ways to filter out the extraneous data and you will have to
find out what works for you. I use Dolphin file manager, as I explained
previously.

 
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