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    File search gui app without indexing

    Hi everyone,

    I have many years of headless linux experience but recently i decided to move to linux for desktop too and I went for kubuntu. Now I'm facing a serious problem, I want to search files inside my external hard drives (which I have a lot !) and of course indexing files inside each of them is ridiculous as their content change during day while connected to other devices and its just a waste of time and also nearly impossible to index them each time !

    Now i find out that kde file search only works if I enable file indexing for the drive, so I tried to test other utilities with GUI but haven't got any success. Tracker, Recoll, ... are not going to search anything before indexing the drive and google didn't help much either. So the question is simple : "Is there any app (of course with gui, I know how to use commands) for searching files without needing to index the drive first ?"

    Waiting for your answers, thx in advance

    #2
    kfind

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      #3
      WoW, thats great to see some software that is actually working.

      I have two more questions :
      1. Why kde decided to disable non indexed drive searches ?
      2. How can I mark this thread as read ?!

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        #4
        Disabled? No, more like replaced it with a different default search tool, back in 2008., Kfind has always been available.


        A thread should automatically be marked as read once you have viewed it, until there is a new post.

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          #5
          Nitpicking

          I have two more questions :
          1. Why kde decided to disable non indexed drive searches ?
          ...
          Disabled? No, more like replaced it with a different default search tool, back in 2008., Kfind has always been available.


          The Dolphin /2/ (file manager /1/) developers decided to replace the KFind /5/ with the Nepomuk (later Baloo) /4/. The Konqueror /3/ (file manager /1/) is still using the KFind as default.

          The Kubuntu developers decided (
          desktop-recommends; Wed, 18 Jun 2008) to not include the KFind to the Kubuntu-desktop /5/ meta package /7/.



          Links

          1. https://userbase.kde.org/Dolphin/File_Management
          2. https://userbase.kde.org/Dolphin
          3. https://userbase.kde.org/Konqueror
          4. https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...71-Baloo-links
          5. https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/kfind/
          6. http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changel....331/changelog
          7. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MetaPackages
          Last edited by LinkBot; Oct 03, 2015, 05:28 AM.
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