In Dolphin detail view, most additional columns show no information: created tags comments title word count orientation artist genre album duration bitrate track release year I am looking at a directory that contains files with some of this information (such as pictures and properly tagged mp3s). The indicated columns are all empty. When I hover over a file, the corresponding extra information is shown correctly in the Information panel on the right.
Do you have Baloo disabled, by any chance?
I can confirm the problem with mp3 files. "balooshow file.mp3" says that the file was indexed but Dolphin does not show additional info in the columns nor in the info panel. Bug 384617 seems related.
Hmm, I'm not able to reproduce with my Dolphin 17.12.3. Details view shows metadata for my music files inside ~/Music, and so does the information panel. Seems like there's some code fragility here, or maybe misconfigurations.
I had baloo disabled. :( It appears that even when indexing is disabled, the contents of "Information" are read from the selected file, but the additional information columns are left empty. I have enabled indexing again. At first, additional information columns remained empty, but after a long time of indexing (almost a day, and a ~/.local/share/baloo/index of 9.7GB in size), I'm now seeing the additional information columns. Some ideas for improvement: 1. The File Search Systems Settings Module could have a warning when you disable indexing that additional information columns will not be shown. 2. When indexing is on, but a directory has not yet been indexed, viewing it leads to immediate indexing so that additional information columns can be seen.
I copied some mp3 files to my home 3 days ago and additional columns are still empty. Baloo is enable here on Arch.
Dr. Chapatin, can you try deleting and re-creating the index and seeing if that helps you? baloocel disable balooctl enable
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #6) > Dr. Chapatin, can you try deleting and re-creating the index and seeing if > that helps you? > > balooctl disable > balooctl enable It worked. Now both columns and info panel show additional info.
Great. This is a problem in Baloo's index, then, not Dolphin. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 384617 ***