[dolphin] [Bug 361694] The search (Find) function in Dolphin is useless, doesn't return results as it should

[Nate Graham]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361694

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--- Comment #10 from Nate Graham  ---
Looks like this actually works for folks now. It works for me, too. Baloo is
fast and stable for me in Kubuntu 17.04.

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[dolphin] [Bug 361694] The search (Find) function in Dolphin is useless, doesn't return results as it should

[via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361694

--- Comment #9 from stu109...@mail.uni-kiel.de ---
(In reply to stu109382 from comment #8)
> I don't get it. Why was this baloo stuff  introduced in the first place?
> What is the expected benefit?
> Wouldn't it be way simpler (and more stable) to implement the dolphin search
> as a fontend for the "find" command?
> Something like "find . -iname *mysearchterm*" and the result is just
> displayed by dolphin.

One might look into this post:
http://www.ryananddebi.com/2015/07/13/linux-getting-find-working-in-dolphin-on-kde-linux-mint-and-kubuntu/
It works much better for me now.

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[dolphin] [Bug 361694] The search (Find) function in Dolphin is useless, doesn't return results as it should

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--- Comment #8 from stu109...@mail.uni-kiel.de ---
I don't get it. Why was this baloo stuff  introduced in the first place? What
is the expected benefit?
Wouldn't it be way simpler (and more stable) to implement the dolphin search as
a fontend for the "find" command?
Something like "find . -iname *mysearchterm*" and the result is just displayed
by dolphin.

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[dolphin] [Bug 361694] The search (Find) function in Dolphin is useless, doesn't return results as it should

[Dean via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361694

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--- Comment #7 from Dean  ---
Having had numerous issues with Dolphin I now find that after upgrading the
libkf5plasma5 package to 5.23 as a fix to other desktop issues, Dolphin has
started working for me again..

Admittedly it is dog-slow, but it seems to work for searches in mounted volumes
and user accounts. I started a search in root and will probably need another
shave by the time it returns, assuming it ever does.

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[dolphin] [Bug 361694] The search (Find) function in Dolphin is useless, doesn't return results as it should

[Bzzz via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361694

--- Comment #6 from Bzzz  ---
Something has changed when upgrading to Plasma 5.6.5 - file names and
extensions can be searched again, search point is still often set to "From Here
(/)" when one is not in the root of the file system.

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[dolphin] [Bug 361694] The search (Find) function in Dolphin is useless, doesn't return results as it should

[Bzzz via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361694

--- Comment #5 from Bzzz  ---
I can clearly see that it doesn't find anything, so something's completely
broken. Moreover, an index-based search tool is already available, it's called
locate and it has been working fine for the past two decades. There's no need
for a replacement that's actually worse than the original. 
Furthermore, either baloo it is working "immediately" so it decreases
performance on every file system operation (I don't want that), or it is
delayed (as locate), so that it cannot give accurate results shortly after
copying and moving stuff (I don't want that as well). I'm especially opposed to
huge collections of metadata that are useless when searching for file contents,
or use as much space as the source files and take as long to search as well.
Just because disk space and CPU time is cheap nowadays it doesn't mean we have
to waste it.

I've been a full-time Linux user for only 7 years now. If I'm unable to use
this fine piece of software, how on earth can you sell this to a newbie? A
basic search function in the default file manager that needs configuration to
work? That's as absurd as the already mentioned search tool in Windows 7. The
Linux community may copy stuff that works well on other OSes, but nothing that
is broken by design...and baloo is just that, I suspect. 
But please, prove me wrong, tell me how to configure and use a search box that
works as reliable as the dolphin search before the "can't find stuff in hidden
folders anymore" bug 269367, which is only 5 years old and still unresolved.
Basically when we had this Nepomuk crap that was relatively easy to disable,
offering a pure and working search function from dolphin instead.

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[dolphin] [Bug 361694] The search (Find) function in Dolphin is useless, doesn't return results as it should

[Stefan Brüns via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361694

--- Comment #4 from Stefan Brüns  ---
Baloo immediately adds files to its index when they are added to the
filesystem.

You can configure baloo to add other directories to its index.

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[dolphin] [Bug 361694] The search (Find) function in Dolphin is useless, doesn't return results as it should

[Bzzz via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361694

--- Comment #3 from Bzzz  ---
balooctl config list includeFolders lists my home dir, nothing else.

How to get rid of baloo and get a proper oldschool on-demand search that also
finds stuff that has just been dropped into some dir? Or on network shares? Or
on removable media?

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[dolphin] [Bug 361694] The search (Find) function in Dolphin is useless, doesn't return results as it should

[Stefan Brüns via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361694

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--- Comment #2 from Stefan Brüns  ---
(In reply to Bzzz from comment #1)
> 15.12.3 search doesn't find ANY files at all. I know that the Windows 7
> search is a massive downgrade from the 2k/XP one, but not finding ANYTHING
> for ANY search term in ANY directory is just ridiculously broken.

Baloo only indexes files in your home directory by default, you can list
included directories with:

balooctl config list includeFolders

You can query baloo for specific information about a file with:

balooshow -x 

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[dolphin] [Bug 361694] The search (Find) function in Dolphin is useless, doesn't return results as it should

[Bzzz via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361694

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--- Comment #1 from Bzzz  ---
15.12.3 search doesn't find ANY files at all. I know that the Windows 7 search
is a massive downgrade from the 2k/XP one, but not finding ANYTHING for ANY
search term in ANY directory is just ridiculously broken.

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