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Tip: Disable baloo indexing for Rust target directories (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 month ago by vox@sopuli.xyz to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

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If you have some rust projects, don't forget to run this:

balooctl6 config add excludeFilters target

to exclude the rust target directories from the file index.

each one contains thouthands of files and even having a couple of projects explodes file index size into hundreds of megabytes and makes the indexer get stuck, sometimes for hours, without doing this.

you may have to purge the index and re-index everything for the changes to take into effect sometimes:

 balooctl6 purge
 balooctl6 resume

(also i believe this should be the default)

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I just disabled balloo. It has never served me any purpose and I've never found a good description of what it does. It has never completed indexing of my files and would always start indexing (seemingly) randomly after failing.

Baloo is off on every KDE desktop I've set up (mine, friends, and family).

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[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

file search in krunner doesn't work without indexing (you have to at least set it to only index file names for that)
also, dolphin won't display file metadata (like image resolution) without file content indexing

[–] forrestguid@social.vivaldi.net 2 points 1 month ago

@vox @onlinepersona I always wondered why basically none of the metadata fields displayed content.
I thought it was just broken, when it's actually broken by design