Amarok can't see

[pkaplan1 at comcast.net]

Interesting comment.  As it turns out I did have to rebuild my system and so this could have resulted in some problems with the location of the USB drive.  How do you rebuild the database (SQLlite)

Paul

>Constantinos Maltezos said the following at 04/05/2008 06:38 PM :
>
>> a comment here.  Sometimes when I update Amarok and sometimes for no 
>> reason at all, the database (I use the default SQLite) become corrupt 
>> for me.  It's happened in multiple versions of Amarok.  When this 
>> happens, either Amarok will crash when I open it or it will only show 
>> a part of my collection, however much I rescan.  The only thing that 
>> fixes it when it happens is to delete the database by hand, via a 
>> terminal program.  Then, when the database rebuilds, everything is 
>> fine.
>> 
>> I haven't a clue as to whether this is what's going on with yours, but 
>> I thought I'd offer it up.
>
>I agree that the database system used in amarok is horribly fragile, especially if you ever move files around >(weirdly, it stores the absolute device information, so if you move your file hierarchy physically, even while keeping >them in the same place logically, the database will still get confused). I now have a cron job that copies the >database every day so that I have a backup in case it gets screwed up (because one loses all the ratings and play >info if one does a complete build-from-scratch).
>
>It's been about a year here since something unilaterally corrupted the database and rendered amarok unusable; >but I have seen a couple of instances since then of upgrades messing it up.
>
>It doesn't sound like that's the OP's problem, though. Through all the several database weirdnesses I've >experienced, I've never seen amarok be unable to find files. If he's comfortable looking inside the database, that >would settle whether amarok really knows about the apparently-missing files.
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