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Hello!
On Arch with KDE fully upgraded I cannot search within dolphin:
Every search I enter, for example for a part of a filename within my home folder, search starts at first but after a few, maybe 10 seconds th search fails with a dark red warning within the dolphin windows:
"The process for the protocol baloosearch ended unexpetedly."
The search settings do not matter (filename, content, different folder) this does not work.
Starting dolphin from the terminal doesn't give any additional information apart from this while starting dolphin:
"Trying to convert empty KLocalizedString to QString."
"QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: file or folder couldn't be found"
What is wrong here? Any idea how to fix it?
Thx, piedro
Last edited by piedro (2015-12-16 08:55:34)
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After deleting all baloo related stuff in my home directory and reindexing (again!) the baloo search seems to work fine now.
But there is still one big problem which is that baloo doesn't search any hidden directories. So there is no way within dolphin to search for file names of configuration files in my user directory with any meaningful results. For example searching for "ballo" doesn't find the baloo index nor the baloo configuration files.
How can I get a serach like with kfind from within dolphin?
Clearly the default file manager should have an option to search for hidden files in a users home...
thx for reading, p.
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regarding hidden folders: https://community.kde.org/Baloo/Configu … en_Folders
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That doesn't solve the problem.
Once you set hidden folder indexing to true you don't only get the file name searching in hidden folders.
You also index the content of everything which is sitting in hidden folders and that is clearly not the way to go...
thx, p.
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You could disable content indexing.
Disabling content indexing for specific folders isn't possible as far as i know.
Last edited by Loose_Control (2015-12-26 14:00:39)
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It's a conceptual thing:
The locations for content indexing should be distinctively different from the locations for file finding.
Both search functions share the same name "search" they serve completely different purposes.
And both are useful. It's not a problem that baloo search also can do file names... but dolphin should use a different search mechanism for file names.
I remember having read something about using kfind within dolphin... can't find it any more though. Do you know how to do that?
thx, piedro
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Do you know how to do that?
sorry no idea
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