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Zeox101

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Registered: 2017-02-05

Posts: 93

[SOLVED] KDE Menu - Deleted Files appear in Search

Hey so I was curious about this thing that happens in KDE.

I can't take a screenshot of it (because the menu closes when I press prt-sc, however I'm sure there's some screenshot tool that I'm not using which would allow me to capture what I'm about to describe, but I hope I can describe this well enough to not need it)

So in KDE, I open the menu that appears from the wheel in the lower left corner. Then where it says "Type to search..." if I begin to search the name of some deleted files they will show up in the results.

I was wondering if someone could explain to me why they are still appearing there? Are their names and previous locations being stored in some file somewhere that KDE is reading from?

Obviously the files are deleted so if I click on the results it will tell me that it can't be opened because the file doesn't exist.

I deleted these files quite a while ago, so rebooting doesn't clear them away.

Last edited by Zeox101 (2017-06-12 14:10:35)

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Slithery

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Registered: 2013-12-01

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE Menu - Deleted Files appear in Search

https://community.kde.org/Baloo

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Zeox101

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Registered: 2017-02-05

Posts: 93

Re: [SOLVED] KDE Menu - Deleted Files appear in Search

Thanks!

After reading around on that I managed to "fix" (in quotations because I guess it was never really a problem to begin with. If I read this right then it would of went away on it's own after a while, guess it just hasn't been long enough for Baloo to remove them from it's indexing) it by deleting everything in ~/.local/share/baloo

Last edited by Zeox101 (2017-06-12 14:11:02)

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We're just a bunch of neckbeards who tinker with arch linux in our mom's basement during our free time ... which we have a lot of because we are unemployed. ~ Trilby