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Catfish search should not run indefinitely. It should timeout.

baloo caused that some if not all files are indexed 3x in my SSD based database (I had to kill baloo_file since it did not follow suspend command), resulting in nearly 20 million files. I am NOT indexing content nor hidden files btw. When I have used Catfish to search for a two word phrase in the scope of a "File System" and I forgot the search is in progress, after several hours I went sleeping and then after waking up, I have found a Catfish process eating one CPU thread and the search found a single file.

I think that this should not happen. Actually Linux utility Fsearch or MS Windows utility Everything finds all the results in couple or several seconds. The search of the Catfish should be reasonably time limited, I would say certainly no longer than one hour by default. Maybe there can be an info box saying that the search has timeout prompting user whether he wants to remove this timeout/increase/decrease it.

Catfish Version: 4.16.4-2 (main repo, stable)
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 6.1.0-27-amd64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11