How to make Unity's Dash save the results filtering?

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Published on 2012-10-19T10:34:31Z Indexed on 2012/11/05 17:19 UTC
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The dash can remember the settings for filtered results for the entire session, but not beyond that. Once the profile is logged out and back in the results would reset to their original settings; displaying all the results without filtering. How can I make the results filtering more permanent? IE: How to make the photo lens for instance always show photos from "This Computer" and not from Picasa or Facebook across sessions and not just temporarily?

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