[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 #5 from tagwerk19 at innerjoin.org ---
(In reply to Ellie from comment #4)
> ... I have to admit I found the UI about what
> search provider was actually used or enabled fairly confusing ...
Indeed, it seems very well hidden :-/

The command line "baloosearch" will give you a way of searching exactly "what
has been indexed", sometimes the extra layer on top from Dolphin muddles things
a bit.

So if you know you have Alice in Wonderland on your disk, you should find it
with:
    $ baloosearch filename:Alice
and if you are content searching
    $ baloosearch Cheshire Cat

If you have Baloo disabled (you can check with "balooctl status"), Dolphin
should choose to search with its own "there and then" search. In the old days,
there would be a pause while that happened and you'd hear the Hard Disk
rattling.

You can see whether Dolphin will ask Baloo or doing a "there and then" search
by looking at the search prompt. If you do a Ctrl-F to get the prompt and it
looks like this:

    https://bugsfiles.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=137170

then you will be doing the "there and then" (filenamesearch) search. If however
you see extra search options (the "Any Type", "Any Rating" etc) as here:

    https://bugsfiles.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=137169

then Dolphin knows it can ask baloo for its search results (baloosearch)

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