My first experience of baloo going wild

[GreyGeek]

A lot of Steam games get installed there, so if one games that size is not a surprise. Mine's 77.2GB.

You nailed it exactly! I played Team Fortress 2 with my grandson until he lost interest. Yesterday I deleted it and now the folder is only 2.45Gb. 19+Gb were used storing TF2's graphics.

[chimak111]

@GreyGeek, but did baloo's index become smaller?

[GreyGeek]

@GreyGeek, but did baloo's index become smaller?

Nope. Didn't change at all.

[chimak111]

Nope. Didn't change at all.

That's one of the "features" of some databases!

Firefox users may remember some extensions to "vacuum" databases.

I also don't know of any way to "export" the index to a human-understandable text file.

For example, if I wish, I could export stylish,sqlite (which is where styles are stored by the Stylish extension of Firefox):

sqlite3 stylish.sqlite "SELECT * FROM styles;" > ~/Desktop/stylish.txt

to be run from the ~.mozilla subfolder holding stylish.sqlite.

For baloo's index, the closest I've got is

strings index

Sad!