Created attachment 157406 [details] File containing folders to be excluded SUMMARY *** NOTE: If you are reporting a crash, please try to attach a backtrace with debug symbols. See https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Debugging/How_to_create_useful_crash_reports *** STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Install a large software package, i.e. Qt. 2. Start baloo 3. In a window run balooctl monitor 4. Run the command 'balooctl config add excludeFilters /home/[user]/Qt 5. Watch baloo continue to index in that folder OBSERVED RESULT Baloo will continue to index files in the excluded folder, even after restarting baloo. The folder is included in baloofilerc exclude folders[$e]=$HOME/Qt/ EXPECTED RESULT I expect Baloo to exclude any folders in the excluded folder list SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: Linux/KDE Plasma: OpenSUSE 15.4/5.104.0 (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 21.8.29 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.104.0 Qt Version: 5.15.8 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION I have some very large trees that should be excluded from Baloo indexing in part due to the sheer size, i.e. Qt source code, but this appears to be broken. For example, I want to exclude /home/username/Qt and all folders underneath it, however even though this folder is in the exclude list, Baloo happily continues to index this. I have well over 1,000,000 files in the excluded trees and this is consuming a significant amount of processing, memory, and disk space to index. Another bug claims that this is the expected behavior, which IMO is completely broken. There must be a way to be able to exclude large trees of files from Baloo!!!
> balooctl config add excludeFilters /home/[user]/Qt Did you mean `balooctl config add excludeFolders /home/[user]/Qt`? Adding a folder to the file type filters list doesn't seem like it's going to work. :) Additionally it looks like there's something wrong with the config file. I see "exclude " on its own line, and then "folders=" on another line. In my file, it says: exclude filters=blabla exclude folders[$e]=blabla Can you try reformatting the file and see if that helps? It seems like something broke it in the past.
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It seems I need to use balooctl check and stop and restart the process. It does not take effect immediately.
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