# Locate &GUI; Frontend

&krusader; has a &GUI; front end for the `locate` command (findutils). Locate is used for fast file searching not from a directory but a database. The package contains among other files, `locate` and `updatedb`. `updatedb` goes through the local file system and stores the file entries in the database. `cron` often calls `updatedb` every night (set with KCron). Choose Tools Locate or &Ctrl;&Shift; L to start this feature. Konfigurator can set additional arguments for `updatedb`.

Checkbox Options

- Show only the existing files: if the database contains entries which no longer exist any more (deleted, moved since the last `updatedb`), `locate` does not list them. It checks the existence of each file before the listing in the results window (slow).

- Case Sensitive: unchecking it allows lower and upper case search.

Action buttons

- Locate: executes `locate `foo foo`` and places its output into the results window.

- Stop: stops the locating process.

- UpdateDB: starts `updatedb` for updating the locate database after entering the root password.

- Close: closes the locate window.

Results window

- Double-click on an item: steps to its directory, makes the item visible and closes the locate dialog.

- Right click: edits/views/finds the menu.

  - F3: views the current item.

  - F4: edits the current item.

  - &Ctrl; F: finds files in the results window.

  - &Ctrl; N: shows the next search result.

  - &Ctrl; P: shows the previous search result.

- The results window supports dragging items to other windows and copy to clipboard (&Ctrl;C).