balooctl Command Examples

File indexing and searching framework for KDE Plasma. More information: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/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 --help