Hi!

The title is quite self explanatory: how do I use balooctl?

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% balooctl status
Baloo File Indexer is running
Indexed 5694 / 5698 files
Failed to index 1 files
File IDs: 18804

That is sweet but a completely useless chain of characters. I don't care what the file ID is, I don't care that you failed to index one file. What I care about is: which files made you fail? What are you indexing right now?
It is most frustrating especially because my baloo seems to never finishes: here

Cheers,

Balooctl was a tool that I added so that people could easily enable/disable and start/stop Baloo. It's also a useful metric to determine the progress.

if you wish to know more about the file which failed to index, then please run 'balooshow' on it.
If you wish to know exactly what baloo is doing then please enable debug messages and restart baloo so you can see the debug output. You can restart baloo by calling balooctl restart or by running the 'baloo_file' process manually.

vHanda wrote:If you wish to know exactly what baloo is doing then please enable debug messages and restart baloo so you can see the debug output.

How do I do that?

You can use kdebugdialog to enable and disable debug messages for the various parts of KDE, including Baloo.

I don't want to know something about the processes in the background -

I would like to do some searches in all my Files and to use it as a Desktop-Search like it was Google-Desktop once.

But I cant find any hint how to do that!???

I am Running KDE 4.13.3 and Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS

The only graphical options I have is to modify the filsystems where to search. - Noting else! Thats quite annoying.

Thanks a lot for an easy way.

Just after posting this topic I found the solution:

- Open Dolphin File-Browser
- Klick the Search-Icon (some Glasses) or tape ctrl+F
to search for filenames only - change nothing
BUT
to search for content-Strings:
- Klick at "Content" or "Inhalt" Button

NOW dolphin lists all baloo-Results in the aktual and all sub-directories.
If You want the results for ALL Files on Your Desktop
- Klick "ALL" or "Überall"

Have FUN!

btw.: - This simple stuff would really appreciated in some general Howto!