My folder specific configuration has three entries - /home/nico (Indexed) - ~/kde (Not indexed) - ~/workspace (Not indexed) When clicking "Defaults" the list doesn't change, except that the icons change from a folder to a disk and the remove button is disabled. See screenshots SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS KDE Plasma Version: master KDE Frameworks Version: master Qt Version: 5.15.5-kde ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Content of .config/baloofilerc: [General] dbVersion=2 exclude filters=*~,*.part,*.o,*.la,*.lo,*.loT,*.moc,moc_*.cpp,qrc_*.cpp,ui_*.h,cmake_install.cmake,CMakeCache.txt,CTestTestfile.cmake,libtool,config.status,confdefs.h,autom4te,conftest,confstat,Makefile.am,*.gcode,.ninja_deps,.ninja_log,build.ninja,*.csproj,*.m4,*.rej,*.gmo,*.pc,*.omf,*.aux,*.tmp,*.po,*.vm*,*.nvram,*.rcore,*.swp,*.swap,lzo,litmain.sh,*.orig,.histfile.*,.xsession-errors*,*.map,*.so,*.a,*.db,*.qrc,*.ini,*.init,*.img,*.vdi,*.vbox*,vbox.log,*.qcow2,*.vmdk,*.vhd,*.vhdx,*.sql,*.sql.gz,*.ytdl,*.class,*.pyc,*.pyo,*.elc,*.qmlc,*.jsc,*.fastq,*.fq,*.gb,*.fasta,*.fna,*.gbff,*.faa,po,CVS,.svn,.git,_darcs,.bzr,.hg,CMakeFiles,CMakeTmp,CMakeTmpQmake,.moc,.obj,.pch,.uic,.npm,.yarn,.yarn-cache,__pycache__,node_modules,node_packages,nbproject,core-dumps,lost+found exclude filters version=8 exclude folders[$e]=$HOME/kde/,$HOME/workspace/
Created attachment 151949 [details] Screenshot before defaulting
Created attachment 151950 [details] Screenshot after defaulting
Odd indeed. I can reproduce.
The problem is with https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/blob/master/kcms/baloo/filteredfoldermodel.cpp#L92 We are defaulting the config -> rebuilding the list -> adding the values of m_runtimeConfig.excludeFolders() right back
Created attachment 152991 [details] Search settings I'm not sure if I should file a new bug report on this as it seems my issue is related to this one. Now about my issue. In Fedora KDE spin, by default baloo excludes entire home folder from indexing and includes only document-centric folders (Documents, Images, Music and Videos). If I need to index the entire home folder, I can add it to the list of folders to be indexed, but then my search settings look odd (it's not clear whether the home folder is indexed or not, see attached image) and I also get the following error: > kf.baloo: Failed to add exclude folder config entry for "/home/epopov/"