Messup in Amarok database

Ljubomir Simin ljubomir.simin at gmail.com
Wed Dec 20 12:08:46 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 20 December 2006 10:30, amarok.20.mhille at spamgourmet.com wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I completely new to amarok and I hope not to ask too stupid questions.
> My System: Kubuntu 6.06 with amarok 1.4.3 on KDE 3.5.5
>
> What happend:
>
> I mounted a SMB share sucessfully to a directory on my laptop, started
> amarok, indexed the files properly and could play the files. Very nice
> so far.
>
> Then I ended amork, and found the mount point for the SMB share not that
> lukily chosen. So I umounted the file system (amarok was not running)
> and remounted it somewhere else. Then I restarted amarok and my problems
> begun.
>
> Since then I am not able to play any files from the SMB mount. Amarok
> claims that it is rebuilding the collection - and does nothing. Ok, the
> collection IS huge (about 8000 files), but the screen doesn't change
> even the progressbar at the bottom has finished to 100%.
>
> I had to kill amarok, as it appearantly was not responding anymore. Then
> I moved the mountpoint to the old location, started amarok again, same
> behaviour.
>
> Seems that I totally messed up the internal SQLite Database. Is there a
> way to re-initialize amarok, so I can start from scratch again?
>
> Regards,
> Martin.


If nothing else works, you can always wipe out ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/* and 
~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc

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Ljubomir Simin 
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