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balooctl — File indexing and searching framework for KDE Plasma. More information: <https://wiki.archlinux.org/

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Problem

How to use the balooctl command: File indexing and searching framework for KDE Plasma. More information: <https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Baloo>.

Solution

balooctl — File indexing and searching framework for KDE Plasma. More information: <https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Baloo>.

Display the status of the indexer:

balooctl status

Enable/Disable the file indexer:

balooctl {{enable|disable}}

Clean the index database:

balooctl purge

Suspend the file indexer:

balooctl suspend

Resume the file indexer:

balooctl resume

Display the disk space used by Baloo:

balooctl indexSize

Check for any unindexed files and index them:

balooctl check

Display help:

balooctl {{[-h|--help]}}

Code Snippets

Display the status of the indexer

balooctl status

Enable/Disable the file indexer

balooctl {{enable|disable}}

Clean the index database

balooctl purge

Suspend the file indexer

balooctl suspend

Resume the file indexer

balooctl resume

Context

tldr-pages: linux/balooctl

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