After installing the new KDE in unstable I noticed the find function
in Dolphin does not work: Enter in a directory full of files, press
Ctrl-F, type your search string and no matter what you type nothing is
found.
On Wed, 23 Dec 2020, Miguel A. Vallejo wrote:
After installing the new KDE in unstable I noticed the find function
in Dolphin does not work: Enter in a directory full of files, press
Ctrl-F, type your search string and no matter what you type nothing is found.
Indeed. I will check with upstream.
Norbert
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After installing the new KDE in unstable I noticed the find function
in Dolphin does not work: Enter in a directory full of files, press
Do you have Baloo activated?
Yes, Baloo was activated. I disabled it and now everything works perfectly.
Do you have Baloo activated?
and, in addition, is baloo currently indexing files? It seems that
when baloo is activated, and indexing hasn't been finished, searches
in dolphin simply terminate with "not found"
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=420172
That would explain the case on my computer, where I turned it on just recently and it has to index a few million files.
Indexing the content of files is nice when you have only a few dozen
files. When you have thousands and thousands of PDF files content
indexing is just a nightmare, a big cpu/memory/disk waste and does not
work at all. Baloo should be completely optional and never be
activated by default. Same thing for Akonadi. My only gripe with KDE
is it is full of "utilities" and "features" enabled by default that
produce more problems than benefits. One you disable / uninstall all
of them, KDE works like a charm.
Of course it is just my opinion.
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