umounted drive makes collection disappear

[Gregory Kuhlmann]

Interesting.  I upgraded to the svn version of amarok and now the problem 
seems to have gone away.  I have "Watch folders for changes" selected. 
And if I unmount / mount while amarok is running, the collection is 
reloaded without requiring a rescan. Another great thing is that a 
complete rescan of the collection is much faster now.

I checked out the Changlog and it appears that the problems have been 
addressed:

"Dynamic mode logic has been rethought to provide a faster and better
  user experience."

You've got that right.  :-)  Thanks to the developers!

Greg



On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, 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
>
>