[dolphin] [Bug 483578] File search doesn't seem to work, doesn't ever list any files

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=483578

--- Comment #14 from tagwerk19 at innerjoin.org ---
Baloo does need more work to deal well with emails :-/

It can handle message/rfc822 format messages (where there is one msg per file)
but reads them as text. If you have encoded attachments, Baloo indexes, ouch,
everything. See Bug 460882. Baloo should really extract the text/plain part (or
the text/html if there is no text/plain)

It tries to read mbox files (where there are many messages concatenated in one
file) but these can grow to GByte sizes, best to exclude those. See Bug 443547.

Thunderbird holds its database of messages as a tree of files under
~/.thunderbird,  Thunderbird has its own pretty good indexing and searching
though. You might be indexing those if you enabled "index hidden files". If you
are indexing hidden files/folders it's probably best to exclude folders like
.cache, .local/share/Trash, .mozilla and .thunderbird, Bug 434705.

If disabling Baloo does not seem to work, it may be in the middle of trying to
index a GByte mbox. You can kill the processes with systemctl:

    systemctl --user stop kde-baloo

Note that Dolphin uses the Baloo index if Baloo is enabled and you are "in" a
folder that Baloo has indexed. Otherwise it does a "there and then" search with
filenamesearch (at least on Neon and Fedora, I'd need to check with
Tumbleweed). Unfortunately, it is not particularly easy to see whether Dolphin
is querying Baloo or not...

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