Bug 377302

Summary:	Baloo keeps some removed files in the index
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-baloo	Reporter:	FabiB <plusfabi>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Pinak Ahuja <pinak.ahuja>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	gennady.uraltsev, hotmusicfan, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.32.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description FabiB 2017-03-06 18:02:05 UTC

I'm a heavy user of baloo. Settings tags to files, searching via krunner / dolphin, Using tag-directory widgets on the desktop

Its a great thing to have something like baloo! Thanks for this.

However the index needs a cleanup functionality. Usually I delete my ~/.local/share/baloo/index every 2 month. Because baloo adds stuff to the index just fine, but don't delets them properly.

I can still find the content of my ~/Downloads/linux4.8 directory that is not there anymore for.. uhm when was 4.9 released? 

In numbers:

before ~/.local/share/baloo/index deletion

balooctl status
Baloo File Indexer is running
Indexer state: Idle
Indexed 29582 / 29582 files
Current size of index is 176,30 MiB

after:

Baloo File Indexer is running
Indexer state: Idle
Indexed 7535 / 7535 files
Current size of index is 31,14 MiB

wich is near the truth
find ~ /home/share/Musik -type f -not -path "*/.*" -not -path "*/Projekte/GIT/*" | wc -l 
7046

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So it would be nice if baloo could run a check if a file still is available and if not - remove it from the index

Comment 1 Gennady Uraltsev 2017-03-27 12:32:38 UTC

Same thing here! 
$ balooctl --version
baloo 5.26.0

and old files don't get removed.

Comment 2 Gennady Uraltsev 2017-04-07 11:54:24 UTC

Can confirm on 5.26.0

Comment 3 hotmusicfan 2017-09-06 22:57:11 UTC

I can confirm it too (5.36).

Comment 4 Nate Graham 2017-10-27 20:14:51 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 353874 ***