Snap is no longer officially supported

The Snap packages of FSearch are no longer officially supported. I'm sorry for any inconvenience that comes with that decision.

Reasons

Snap severally limits the functionality and usefulness of FSearch. For example

• Opening files doesn't work well: FSearch as a Snap application doesn't get the permission to read the default applications for file types and Snaps have unresolved issues with interacting with the system portal (a way to open files for sandboxed applications). This means opening files from FSearch often fails or opens a non-default application. For the same reason the Open with menu can't be populated with any applications.

• Hidden folders can't be searched: Snap prevents applications from accessing hidden folders in your home folder (e.g. ~/.config) , which means FSearch can't search in them.

• USB drives can't be accessed by default: Snap prevents applications from accessing mounted removable storage in /media, /run/media and /mnt by default. This can be fixed by running sudo snap connect fsearch:removable-media in the terminal, but many users obviously won't know about that (even though it's mentioned on the app's store page).

A request to allow FSearch to circumvent those restrictions was denied.

Because of those reasons I don't think Snap is the right way to distribute an application like FSearch and I will stop supporting the Snap packages.

How to install FSearch instead

If you want to continue using FSearch in a supported way, first remove the Snap package. You can do that either by using the Ubuntu Software center or by executing snap remove fsearch in the terminal.

Then, if you are running Ubuntu or a derivative (like Xubuntu or Linux Mint), the preferred way to install FSearch is with the official PPA. To do so simply run the following commands in the terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:christian-boxdoerfer/fsearch-stable
sudo apt update
sudo apt install fsearch

All other ways to install FSearch are described here.