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Bug 325458

Summary: Search Text in all Files not working 100%
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Kiren Pillay <kirenpillay1>
Component: SearchAssignee: Platform-Search-Inbox <platform-search-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: daniel_megert
Version: 3.5.1Keywords: needinfo
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description Kiren Pillay CLA 2010-09-16 08:58:47 EDT 
Build Identifier: SpringSource Tool Suite   Version: 2.3.2.RELEASE

When searching all the projects in the workspaces, I searched for the string "4.0" in my pom.xml files. I used the file filter pom.xml and a file that had this string did not show up in the search results.

I don't think this is unique to this search, as I have experience this in other searches before, not just xml files. 

I have to take the safer option and search using external tools. The search file in Eclipse is not reliable.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Difficult to reproduce as it is intermittent, and I cannot find the pattern. 

I've marked this a major as it can lead to a lot of wasted develpment effort because of it.
Comment 1 Dani Megert CLA 2010-09-16 09:02:02 EDT 
- What Eclipse build ID?
- What kind of search are you using (steps, screenshot)?
- Anything in .log (see Error Log view)
Comment 2 Kiren Pillay CLA 2010-09-16 09:25:45 EDT 
Created attachment 179030 [details]
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Comment 3 Kiren Pillay CLA 2010-09-16 09:26:10 EDT 
- What Eclipse build ID?
Build Id: 201003230009

- What kind of search are you using (steps, screenshot)?
Search-> File -> File Search tab->

Entered
Containing text: 4.0

File name patterns pom.xml

- Anything in .log (see Error Log view)

I cleared the log and search again and found no errors. 

I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 AMD-64, ext4 file system.
Comment 4 Dani Megert CLA 2010-09-16 09:31:14 EDT 
>I cleared the log and search again and found no errors. 
and that search failed?
Comment 5 Dani Megert CLA 2010-09-16 09:31:50 EDT 
Are the resources/files are inside your workspace directory or are some of the filed/folders linked in?
Comment 6 Dani Megert CLA 2010-09-17 02:32:27 EDT 
Sorry, but after all attempts to reproduce the problem on Windows XP and Linux failed. Also, we never got a similar bug in the last 10 years. Please try to narrow down the problem to a reproducible test case (you can also provide a workspace) and attach it here. We can then reopen the bug. Currently there's nothing more we can do here without more details.