Dolphin's Columns not working properly for Audio Length, Video Dimensions or Folder Size

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Hello,

I can’t seem to get either audio duration of Video dimensions working in the detailed column view. (No information is shown when adding these columns)

The option to show folder size also doesn’t work as expected.
When I toggle size option (instead of number of items), Dolphin shows folder size in current directory. On changing directories, it stops working (blank size column). Going back to the directory where I enabled folder size will also now show a blank column.

Opening a new instance of Dolphin, will show sizes in home directory with similar behavior as above when changing directories.

Any advise on fixing these issues is appreciated.
Cheers
OS Fedora 40.

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the metadata is not read by dolphin, for that you will need to index the files with baloo

type “file search” on the desktop and go to the settings page

check the enable file search box

and if you want the meta data, also select the file content box.

then specify which folders to index by using the + start indexing button.

add each folder you want index such as ~/Pictures to the list

it will take some time as the process runs in the background, but the columns will eventually populate.

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thanks for the reply,

The file index is already set to index file contents in Videos directory.

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Also any Idea about the folder size issue?

Also are these things working for you?
This might be a Fedora issue rather than a KDE one.
I have installed kde over XFCE and these issues might be due to not installing all dependencies maybe?

Thanks.

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folder size (bytes) vs folder contents count (number of items) is a dolphin setting that requires some CPU to calculate, so it off by default.

indexing is working for me, but i’ve gone with a distro that does all the work of implementing KDE for me (kubuntu) rather than trying to set it up myself after just installing the desktop.

there is a KDE spin of fedora where things are step up for you but i don’t know about just installing their KDE package on top of another version of fedora.

there is also some baloo troubleshooting you can do to reset the index in case it has become corrupted some how.

man baloo for more info or search this website.

here’s one