Bug 359156

Summary:	Plasma 5.5.4: Configure baloo to only index filenames but no content?
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-baloo	Reporter:	Gregor Mi <codestruct>
Component:	Baloo File Daemon	Assignee:	Pinak Ahuja <pinak.ahuja>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	abulak, aspotashev, christoph, nate, pinak.ahuja
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description Gregor Mi 2016-02-08 23:06:57 UTC

Baloo seems to be very fast at collecting files. However on a large file base with lots of often changing content the baloo_extractor takes quite an amount of system resources.

For many use cases one often only need to quickly search by filename. Is it possible to configure baloo this way? E.g.: let it index all the filenames but do not extract any content (or only for a small range of files)?

Comment 1 abulak 2016-05-03 12:34:20 UTC

add 
only basic indexing=true
into [General] section of Your ~/.config/baloofilerc

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2018-11-26 20:00:24 UTC

Yes, abulak gave the way to do it using the config file. You can also turn it off in System Settings > Search > File Search > uncheck "Also index content"