thank you wordler for your help.
i figured as much regarding Baloo…
it seems to be better now that the system has stabilized (i.e. finished indexing).
i wonder - is there any way to limit Baloo’s use of cpu? i’ve gotten used to KDE file search integration within the system and would like to keep it this way.
hopefully this improves in future kde releases.
thanks!
Glad to be of help.
There are some configurations in Search Settings you could play around with if you haven’t already. If you were to uncheck “also index file content” & perhaps “index hidden files and folders” that may speed things up and maybe use less cpu. Also at the bottom of that there is “add folder configuration” so using that you could exclude certain parts of your system that you don’t need a file search for, again saving time. Then you could use Angrysearch/Catfish to do one-off full system searches when needed.
This is all a bit theoretical as I don’t use Baloo, and I’m not firing it up to test on my system (sorry!), but I think the theory is sound enough.
As for my comments on Akonadi, ignore them, I was wrong about that. I think I was thinking of Nepomuk on KDE4 which was the forerunner of Baloo. That was even worse!
Good Luck 
I would never have thought of something like that what a eye-opener Thanks for that wow
@wordler I hear what your saying this desktop of mine is really weird some distros no problem install and run beautifully and other distros that I would like no no way too bad pick something else I cannot fight it just go with the desktop flow , once described as ( never tried this alright ) as “putting a feral cat into a shoe-box” 
would be difficult , just like this intel i7 just difficult at times
thank you again wordler!
i disabled searching hidden files and folders - perhaps that was causing the problem. will see how it works.
thanks!
Just to repeat - Not that it really matters …
But today November 28, 2020 EndeavourOS has made it into the Top 10 on DistroWatch.
Considering that this distro made it into the Top 20 back on July 17, 2020 (when it was just about one year old), this increase in visibility in such a short amount of time is nothing short of amazing, in my opinion.
Congratulations to the developers again!
Lawrence
I just checked DistroWatch today and I see that EndeavourOS is now in fifth (5th) place, even ahead of Ubuntu! (Of course I’m certain that far more people actually use Ubuntu than use EnOS.)
Some of the reviews are just silly (including one written on 2021-04-15); these are written by people who really have no business using EnOS in my opinion. This is a problem which I predicted would happen if EnOS got too “popular” on DistroWatch.
It does require some effort to learn (unlike some other easier-to-use distros) but, once everything is set up (and you have at least some rudimentary knowledge of how your computer/system works), maintaining and using a computer with EnOS is, again in my opinion, very easy.
For the most part I just update my computer(s) once daily and then go about my business for the rest of the day.
In general, everything just works. And if I have some particular question, the answer can always be found or supplied by someone on this forum (which, as many others have said, is the best forum there is!)
Thanks to everyone.
Lawrence
As long endev enos eos stay on its roots… it wil be ok 
I never understood the usefulness of Distrowatch very well beyond the simple news with a lot of holder and little content.
There was a time when I was dedicated to collect the number of messages published in the forums (before the appearance of social networks).
That gave me an idea of the activity that there was around the most popular distros (and not so much). But it was a very laborious manual process and, over time, I ended up abandoning.
I understand it perfectly and i have no issue with it. I know what it is and what it isn’t. For me it’s just a convenient place to have a quick look and see if there is anything new.