counsel-locate database

[ghost]

Is the counsel-locate database automatically update or does one have to perform a manual sudo updatedb in the terminal?

[a13]

counsel-locate can call updatedb to generate a per-user db (see counsel-locate-db-path defcustom), but only when there's ~/.Private file, which usually means that your home folder is encrypted. But I suppose it should work even if you just create the file (not sure if anything else won't break, though).

[ghost]

Thank you. I will test it out and revert.