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

[Nathan Colinet]

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

--- Comment #7 from Nathan Colinet <colinetnathan98 at gmail.com> ---
> If I look at this search, you are in your Downloads folder and searching
> from there. The search box is giving you the "extra options", the "type",
> "date", "rating" and "tags", that says dolphin thinks that baloo has indexed
> the folder.
> 
> Can be that this is where things are going wrong, dolphin thinks that baloo
> has indexed the folder and it will ask baloo to give the results. You can
> have a look with a command line:
>     baloosearch pdf
> to see if baloo can find the pdf files.

Yes, baloo can find them. If I mark this folder as not indexed in baloo kcm,
the search from here works.

> What might be happening is you have a symlink from your home directory to an
> "external" disc that is holding your downloads. That will mess up baloo as
> it doesn't follow symlinks when indexing. There's a summary of this issue in
> Bug 447119, Case 3

I use systemd-homed, maybe it is related.

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