Nautilus Search doesn't work as expected.

[Richard Chapman <rchapman aardvark com au>]

Hi,

I have already posted this question to the Distro support forum without 
any luck.

I am running Centos 5.0 with all current updates (Therefore 5.1 I 
assume) with the full gnome desktop and most options instlled. Nautilus 
reports as Version 2.16.2
I have never found that the Search function in Nautilus (ctrl F or 
button) works as I would expect. It will usually find a file in the 
current directory with a matching name - but will not find any files in 
subdirectories, unless they have been found recently. When it doesn't 
find anything it sits there with the "busy" mouse pointer for ever - or 
at least until I click "stop".

I have done some google research - and the ubuntu community describe 
similar problem behaviour when "tracker" and/or "indexing" is disabled.

I haven't found any way to disable or enable either tracker or Indexing 
- so I assume these are not part of the Centos distribution.

Can anyone throw any light on this problem? Am I misinterpreting how the 
search should behave? Have I got something set incorrectly? Do I need to 
install or enable some indexing function? Is the distributed build of 
Nautilus expecting some functionality which isn't installed on my system?

Thanks

Richard.