Renaming a file seems to cause Baloo to loose the index entry for it. Can someone confirm that this is a bug and not just me.

Create an empty file - baloosearch for filename works. Remove one letter from the filename and baloosearch does not find the new filename.

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[ ~]$ cat > zwzwzw.txt
[o ~]$ ll zwz*
-rw-r--r-- 1 gregg gregg 0 2021-02-15 13:48 zwzwzw.txt
[ ~]$ baloosearch zwzw
/home/gregg/zwzwzw.txt
Elapsed: 6.52226 msecs
[ ~]$ balooshow zwzwzw.txt
7611674186023683 66307 1772231 zwzwzw.txt [/home/gregg/zwzwzw.txt]
        Mtime: 1613414927 2021-02-15T13:48:47
        Ctime: 1613414927 2021-02-15T13:48:47
[ ~]$ mv zwzwzw.txt zwzwz.txt
[ ~]$ baloosearch zwzw
Elapsed: 0.244316 msecs
[ ~]$ balooshow zwzwz.txt
7611674186023683 66307 1772231 zwzwz.txt [/home/gregg/zwzwz.txt]
        Mtime: 1613414927 2021-02-15T13:48:47
        Ctime: 1613414927 2021-02-15T13:48:47


Using Manjaro; KDE 5.20.5; Frameworks 5.78.0; Qt 5.15.2

Confirmed, Tumbleweed with Frameworks 5.78.o, Plasma 5.20.5 y Qt 5.12.2.

The problem is "File Name Terms:", you can show it using BalooShow -x, are emptied when you rename a file.

As a bad workaround you can clear metadata before renaming the file. Yes, I told you, is a really bad workarount.

Thanks for confirming it. When I've got a minute I'll file a bug report.

I've filed a bug report https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433116

There was already a similar bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=392793 But it is hard to tell if it is the same issue. 392793 relates to searching and renaming in Dolphin, which seems to react differently to the renamed file. Anyway, have to wait and see if it gets flagged as a duplicate.

Hi,

I fixed the problem and created packages for openSUSE and for the brave this could be a temporal solution. I intend to maintain these packages until the problem is fixed.

The repository is available https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/serantes:/branches:/openSUSE:/Factory/openSUSE_Factory/.