[dolphin] [Bug 441068] Dolphin is unable to search file names n unidexed directories

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=441068

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--- Comment #2 from tagwerk19 at innerjoin.org ---
(In reply to Nathan Colinet from comment #1)
> Still there, the end user expects such a feature to actually work. No error
> reported, nothing. Very frustrating.
I'm missing a few steps along the way :-)

If I'm in Neon and plug in a USB (you are talking about removable media), the
USB appears under
        /media/myusername/myusb
or similar. This won't be indexed by baloo and if you search dolphin will give
you a prompt like:
        https://bugsfiles.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=137170
By contrast if baloo has indexed (has been told to index) the folders, dolphin
"knows" this and will give a prompt with more options:
        https://bugsfiles.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=137169

If you go to
        /media/myusername/myusb
and do a Ctrl-F to search, dolphin will search "there and then" through the
subfolders and present the results. It's doing the scanning "there and then" so
it's slower and you might have to wait for the results to be presented. Dolphin
relies on a process "filenamesearch" to do this work.

In order to see the results, you *will* need to select the "Filename", rather
than "Content", option and "From Here (myusb)" rather than "Your Files".

I can say, in Neon, the above "magic" works but let's look one step at a
time...

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