balooctl

Control KDE Baloo file indexing

TLDR

Show indexer status

$ balooctl status

Enable file indexer

$ balooctl enable

Disable file indexer

$ balooctl disable

Purge index database

$ balooctl purge

Suspend indexing

$ balooctl suspend

Show disk space used

$ balooctl indexSize

Check for unindexed files

$ balooctl check

balooctl is the control utility for Baloo, the file indexing and search framework used in KDE Plasma. It manages the file indexer daemon that powers fast desktop file search, allowing users to enable, disable, suspend, and monitor the indexing process.The tool is useful for troubleshooting search issues, reclaiming disk space used by the index, and checking which files have been indexed.

PARAMETERS

status

Display current indexer status

enable

Enable the file indexer

disable

Disable the file indexer

purge

Delete the index database

suspend

Temporarily suspend indexing

resume

Resume suspended indexing

indexSize

Show disk space used by index

check

Find and index unindexed files

index file...

Manually index specific files

clear file...

Remove specific files from the index

config

Modify Baloo configuration

monitor

Monitor indexer activity

failed

List files that could not be indexed

CONFIGURATION

~/.config/baloofilerc

Controls which directories to index, file types to exclude, and indexing behavior.

CAVEATS

Purging the index requires re-indexing all files which can take time. The indexer respects KDE settings for which directories to index. High CPU usage during indexing is normal.

HISTORY

balooctl is part of Baloo, the file indexing and search framework for KDE Plasma desktop.