Where did the mouse's single-click option in Dolphin go?

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Those are not indexed by baloo.
You should be able to search by filename still.

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“Those are not indexed by baloo.”

baloo is indexing the /home/user tree now and shows 73% - up from 71% yesterday. I had ticked off “File names and content” in Plasma’s “File search”.

I will try to open a bug report, but it’s not clear to me which files I could submit.
Meanwhile I’ll test more directories under /home/user.

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The interesting ones are the one baloo takes very long indexing.
If the blocker is IO or a high number of files, that’s expected to be somewhat slow.

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Baloo continues to draw criticism, I met this issue some years ago but it has given me no trouble for a long time now.

KDE settings (easy selections via radio buttons) do tend to invite a number of PEBCAK issues also.

I now have

  • /mnt/T3 hard drive (Media server)
  • /mnt/T4 (Media and 10,000 e-books),
  • /mnt/W2 Movies (Guess…) with file names and contents selected.
balooctl6 status
Baloo File Indexer is running
Indexer state: Idle
Total files indexed: 16,083
Files waiting for content indexing: 0
Files failed to index: 0
Current size of index is 1.23 GiB

I have a 1.2 GiB index (~/.local/share/baloo) updated 8 minutes ago.

The main issue for me was when I decided to include hidden files - that’s a real killer and a rather stupid error given the HUGE numbers of files in cached/Plex and other hidden folders with mostly useless results.

To be specific, I think there were well over a million files included when hidden folders are uncovered…

We have very good threads and troubleshooting guides in the Manjaro forum across the years.

Anyways @Bjarnulv if you wanna troubleshoot this, you should start a fresh thread and we’ll play with it.

Total files indexed: 438 659
This does seem rather excessive maybe - i don’t know - but it looks quite massive.

Also, take a look here:
https://community.kde.org/Baloo

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Understood; I’m just trying to relate what I see.

I have looked closer at the 21 directories under /home/user - the search function fails in all dirs except three:
anaconda3 (created by Anaconda)
aur (created by myself)
Calibre-bibliotek (created by/within Calibre).

Interestingly, when starting a search from /home/user, it finds files, although not all, throughout the /home/user tree.

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I have been using nothing but Arch+KDE on my main machine since 2008…
I got aware of this search problem in Dolphin about 6 months ago, but did nothing due to laziness. Yes, it is a big number of files - mostly news articles in PDF. I am waiting for a PCI S-ATA card before shifting them to a mechanical disk - and another for backup :slight_smile:

I am still not sure if it is a KDE bug or just a quirk in my system setup.

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I had a look at bug-id=3988 (full link not allowed here).

It looks very similar to what I experience.

So i did:

$ balooctl6 purge

logged out

$ balooctl6 index /home/user/
(which was very fast)

and now it looks like the search function in Dolphin is fully restored (with “File name” and “From here”). Of course, I have tested it only a few times, but it looks promising…

Thank you, @meven and @ben2talk, for the help!

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