Created attachment 158433 [details] The final result of Elisa data being empty, along with the Elisa and File Search configs, as well as an example file from the location that's not getting scanned properly. SUMMARY I have a secondary HDD that is formatted as NTFS and contains a "Music" folder with all my music files. I've mounted the HDD under /media/Data, and symlinked my ~/Music folder to /media/Data/Music. After opening Elisa and seeing no music info get picked up by the scan, I went into the options and saw the notice that symlinks aren't followed, so I removed ~/Music from the location list and added /media/Data/Music. I then forced a re-scan from Elisa but still nothing showed up. Wondered if it was because the folder wasn't indexed, so I opened "File Search - System Settings", added the /media/Data/Music folder with indexing enabled, then rebooted as requested. After logging back in it said that indexing was completed, but after opening Elisa and forcing another scan (including a "Reset Database and Re-Scan Everything" action) still nothing from that folder is getting picked up. I confirmed that if I search within Dolphin for a music file that exists in /media/Data/Music it finds it successfully. I also confirmed that I can manually open files from this location in Elisa and it does play them. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Have a NTFS partition mounted under /media, with a sub-folder containing music files. 2. Add the Music sub-folder as an indexed-enabled entry within "File Search - System Settings". 3. Add the Music sub-folder as a location within "Configure - Elisa". 4. Initiate a scan for new music within Elisa. OBSERVED RESULT After initiating a scan within Elisa, nothing from the NTFS partition's Music folder is populated under Albums/Artists/Tracks/Genres. Can successfully find files from that Music folder by searching within Dolphin. EXPECTED RESULT After initiating a scan within Elisa, the music from the NTFS partition's Music folder is populated under Albums/Artists/Tracks/Genres. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Fedora Linux 38 (KDE Plasma) (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.105.0 Qt Version: 5.15.9
If you switch to the "Scan the filesystem directly" indexer and restart Elisa, does it find your music files?
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > If you switch to the "Scan the filesystem directly" indexer and restart > Elisa, does it find your music files? Just tested that, and yes it did find everything expected from the Music folder (attached screenshot confirmation - "elisa - scan the filesystem directly result.png").
Created attachment 158468 [details] Successful scan after changing to "scan the filesystem directly"
Found out that I should have switched the status back to "reported" along with my last reply, so doing that now.
All right, then it does indeed seem to be a bug in the default Baloo-based indexer. Thanks.
Should be fixed by removing the 'fast' indexer. https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/elisa/-/merge_requests/521