Issue

When encountering this issue the computer will start using the CPU to it’s maximum potential which will make the fans noisy and therefore the computer usage experience terrible.

Solution

To fix this issue you could either run balooctl disable and later remove the indexing file, created by baloo_file_index, or you could edit ~/.config/baloofilerc and append the following lines to the end of the configuration file:

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[General]
only basic indexing=true

Most KDE users have a pre-existing [General] section and therefore appending only basic indexing=true to the end of that section is enough.

Happy Linuxing!