Searching for files in KDE 3.1?

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10-10-2003, 03:24 PM	#1
bolinux Member Registered: Oct 2003 Distribution: Fedora Core 1 with KDE 3.2 Posts: 257 Rep:	Searching for files in KDE 3.1? In mandrake linux when I search for files it says that the database is more than 8 days old. It does search but I want to know why it says that.

10-10-2003, 11:40 PM	#2
salparadise Senior Member Registered: Nov 2002 Location: Birmingham UK Distribution: Various Posts: 1,736 Rep:	open a terminal su to root type updatedb let it finish try to do this every week or so it makes finding stuff much easier

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