https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474973
--- Comment #3 from John Kizer <john.ki...@proton.me> --- (In reply to tagwerk19 from comment #1) > (In reply to Marco from comment #0) > > Note: Before you ask, yes: baloo is running, and the home directory is > > being indexed > :-) > > I'll deal with this one first just in case anyone else has followed a path > to this bug report. > > By default Fedora indexes a subset of directories, ~/Documents, ~/Pictures, > ~/Music and ~/Videos (with Baloo). That is, it doesn't index your home > directory by default. If you want to search for anything with Dolphin, > starting "from home", Dolphin will use it's own "there and then" search, > find it's way down through the subdirectories (including ~/Downloads) and > give you any matches. The command line baloosearch won't find any matches as > baloo hasn't indexed ~/Downloads. > > There's a description of the differences between Dolphin's own search and > baloo here: Bug 463830 > > The above does not apply in your case as you've set Fedora to index > everything. > > Second option might be that you have a symlink to your ~/Downloads, from > somewhere under your home folder, maybe (this is how it caught me), in your > ~/Desktop folder (could also be that you have your Downloads folder on > another disc?). Symlinks can get messy and generally baloo avoids following > them when it's doing its indexing. > > What is tricky to work out without additional information is why: > baloosearch <keyword> > works and > baloosearch --directory /home/<myusername> <keyword> > doesn't. For one of the files that the first finds and the second does not: > balooshow -x <thecuriousfile> > Have a look for your filename and a different filename within [ square > brackets ] > > There's a description of just how tangled symlinks can get here: Bug 447119 > > ... I'm wondering about case "2a" as this seems to best match your symptoms. Hi - Does the attachment I just added show what might be helpful in this case? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
