I try to run kfind with the following options: Name: * Path: <a directory containing 350 text files of about 107MB of total size> Include subdirs: no case sensitive: no [Contents] file type: all files and directories containing the text: <search pattern, without * or any other wilcards> case sensitive: no regular expression: no Then I start it. It freezes and never gets out of there. The corresponding grep command successfully terminates in less than a second.
which kde version?
kde-3.1.4
closing as an upstream problem - if it persists in latest kde versions please file a bug at bugs.kde.org