[kde] [Bug 467550] New: baloo does not exclude folders under an excluded folder

[Aaron Williams]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467550

            Bug ID: 467550
           Summary: baloo does not exclude folders under an excluded
                    folder
    Classification: I don't know
           Product: kde
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: aaronw at doofus.org
  Target Milestone: ---

Created attachment 157406
  --> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=157406&action=edit
File containing folders to be excluded

SUMMARY
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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Install a large software package, i.e. Qt.
2. Start baloo
3.  In a window run balooctl monitor
4. Run the command 'balooctl config add excludeFilters /home/[user]/Qt
5. Watch baloo continue to index in that folder

OBSERVED RESULT
Baloo will continue to index files in the excluded folder, even after
restarting baloo. The folder is included in baloofilerc  exclude
folders[$e]=$HOME/Qt/

EXPECTED RESULT
I expect Baloo to exclude any folders in the excluded folder list

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: OpenSUSE 15.4/5.104.0
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 21.8.29
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.104.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I have some very large trees that should be excluded from Baloo indexing in
part due to the sheer size, i.e. Qt source code, but this appears to be broken.
For example, I want to exclude /home/username/Qt and all folders underneath it,
however even though this folder is in the exclude list, Baloo happily continues
to index this. I have well over 1,000,000 files in the excluded trees and this
is consuming a significant amount of processing, memory, and disk space to
index.
Another bug claims that this is the expected behavior, which IMO is completely
broken. There must be a way to be able to exclude large trees of files from
Baloo!!!

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