I can confirm that this exact same behaviour happens for me. I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 11.04 (in which I was using Gnome 2 and the places menu was working fine. I have attached .local/share/zeitgeist/activity.sqlite (the one from before the upgrade).
** Attachment added: "activity.sqlite" https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-lens-files/+bug/879132/+attachment/3149372/+files/activity.sqlite -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/879132 Title: Activating an item in the files lens opens its parent folder and not the file. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/879132/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs