Howto Reset Baloo Database

For over a year my KDE 5 search indexer has been stuck at 49%, because it couldn’t handle android studio source code. I was able to reset it a few months ago and all got indexed. Today I checked and File Search in KDE Settings shows indexer idle, complete 82%. Noooo, stuck again. Baloo is not very usable in KDE5. Shows already deleted files, gets stuck all the time, sometimes can’t even stop. I use it as a application laucher. Fortunately my files are tidy enough.

Anyways, here are commands:

balooctl disable && balooctl purge && balooctl enable && balooctl check

If you see something like this:

Disabling and stopping the File Indexer
Stopping the File Indexer ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... - failed to stop!

restart your computer or upgrade to KDE6 or something similar.