[dolphin] [Bug 433967] If Baloo content indexing is disabled, but Baloo is enabled, searches immediately return 0 results

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433967

--- Comment #11 from tagwerk19 at innerjoin.org ---
Some ideas....

... the results in Comment 6 and Comment 7 don't make much sense to me when put
side by side

    A plain and simple "baloosearch" doesn't mind where you are when you
    call it, it should give you the same results.
    If you want to filter results by directory, there is a "-d" option.

        baloosearch -d Downloads adwaitrecolour 

    You can try

        balooshow -x ~/adwaitrecolour"

    and

        balooshow -x ~/Downloads/adwaitrecolour

    That will shows you what information baloo has for each file.

    I'm guessing you might have loads of subdirectories and baloo can hit
    a system limit. You can what the limit is with:

        sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches 

    If this says 8192 and you've got more than about 8000 folders then
    the indexing will go wrong. You can increase the limit following:

        https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433204#c12

    It may also make sense to purge the database and start again "clean"

        balooctl purge

... For Comment 9

    As above, a plain and simple "baloosearch" doesn't mind where you are
    when you call it, it looks up its index. If you

        cd /
        baloosearch hosts

    You'll just get hits just from the folders you've indexed. Assuming
    you've got

        folders[$e]=$HOME/

    in your .config/baloofilerc then you are indexing your home folder
    and below (and if not specified, that's also the default)

    You can experiment with telling baloo to index "/" (without indexing
    file content) but you'll very much need the increase in "max notify
    watches"

... For comment 10

    A search from "/" in Dolphin probably isn't using baloo

    You can search from "/" is dolphin but it walks through the filesystem
    looking for things that match - that can take a while (You'll see a
    "searching" annotation in the bottom right of the dolphin window)

Hope I've got this right - and hope this makes sense!

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