Strange .csv files from Amarok in my $HOME (Mark Kretschmann)

[Ralf Engels]

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> Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 12:31:09 +0100
> From: Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org>
> Subject: Re: Strange .csv files from Amarok in my $HOME
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> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I'm having a bizarre issue here that I can't wrap my head around:
> >
> > In my $HOME, there are hundreds of "*.csv" files, apparently from
> > Amarok (see attached screenshot). What they contain is a bunch of tags
> > and labels:
> >
> >
> > mark at serenity:~$ cat composers-2010-10-20T15\:05\:47.csv
> > id;name;
> > 1;;
> > 2;Bach;
> > 3;Buxtehude, Dietrich;
> > 4;Bic Runga;
> > 5;Antony;
> > 6;B. Zetlitz;
> > 7;Jamie Catto/Maxi Jazz/Rollo/Sister Bliss;
> > 8;Dido/Maxi Jazz/Rollo/Sister Bliss;
> > 9;Maxi Jazz/Rollo/Sister Bliss;
> > 10;Rollo/Sister Bliss;
> > 11;Rollo/Sister Bliss/Zoe Johnston;
> > 12;Sister Bliss;
> > 13;Maxi Jazz/Rollo/Sister Bliss/Zoe Johnston;
> > 14;Faithless/Maxi Jazz/Rollo/Sister Bliss;
> > 15;Dido/Faithless/Maxi Jazz/Rollo/Sister Bliss;
> >
> >
> > What on earth could generate these files? :)
> 
> Just found this here:
> 
> mark at serenity:~/kde/src/amarok$ ack-grep ".csv"
> src/core-impl/collections/db/sql/SqlCollection.cpp
> 493:            QDir::home().absoluteFilePath( table + '-' +
> QDateTime::currentDateTime().toString( Qt::ISODate ) + ".csv" );
> 
> -- 
> Mark Kretschmann
> Amarok Developer, Software Engineer at KO GmbH
> Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe
> http://amarok.kde.org - http://fsfe.org - http://kogmbh.com


The .csv files are produced by the function dumpDatabaseContent and are
the whole contents of the sql database.
Very useful to debug which is why I have the function numerous time in
the past to help me finding bugs.

They should all be removed by now and a quick grep in our sources agree.
You can delete those files without a second thought.

BR,
Ralf