umounted drive makes collection disappear

[Peter C. Ndikuwera]

Hey Max,

One problem I've had (which sounds similar to his) is with an NFS
share. If my network connection dies (cat trips on cable, server
crashes, etc), then the "Watch Folder on Changes" setting starts a
collection update and my entire collection vanishes. When the
connection comes back (server rebooted, cat eviscerated) _another_
collection scan will rescan my entire collection.

With 20,000 songs, this takes QUITE a while.

On 12/9/06, Maximilian Kossick <mkossick at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi Gregory,
> your problem sounds like Dynamic Collection at work. Amarok will detect if
> your external hard drive is mounted and only show the music on it if it is.
> What happens if you start Amarok without mounting your harddrive and then
> mount it while Amarok is running? Does your collection appear?
>
> Max
>
> On Friday, 8. December 2006 23:39, Gregory Kuhlmann wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm using amarok 1.4.4 (built Nov 27, 2006), installed as a debian
> > package on my x86 laptop.  I use mysql 14.12 (Distrib 5.0.27) as the
> > database.
> >
> > My 90GB or so of mp3s are stored on an external USB hard drive that I only
> > mount when listening to music.
> >
> > My problem is that if I forget to mount the drive before starting amarok
> > or if I accidentally forget to close amarok before unmounting, my
> > collection must be updated from scratch.  It doesn't happen a lot, but
> > when it does, I'm in for about 30-45 minutes of wait time before the
> > collection update completes.
> >
> > In the short term, I'll probably just write a wrapper script around
> > amarok to make sure that I don't keep making this mistake-- something
> > like:
> >
> > sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt && amarok ; sudo umount /mnt
> >
> > or is there a better solution?  Should I treat my external drive as a
> > 'media device'?  Anyone else have a similar setup and run into similar
> > issues?
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Greg
> >
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