Collections on External HDD

[Casey Link]

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Nick Ogden <nick at nickogden.net> wrote:
> Hey people,
>
> For a while there has been some functionality missing from Amarok 2 which has
> burnt me.
>
> Basically, I have all my music on an external hard drive. While this is
> normally connected to my laptop, it is sometimes not mounted. The issue is
> that every time I start Amarok and then mount my hard drive a full collection
> rescan takes place. This means of course, that all my modifications to my
> collection are lost etc... If I start Amarok without mounting my hard drive,
> then close Amarok, mount my hard drive and restart Amarok the same thing
> happens.
>
> I assume this is to do with the incomplete implementation of non-local
> collections? I was wondering if someone could point me in the direction of
> where this should be fixed / implemented so that I might have a go.

I too have this problem.. and it is very annoying. Amarok should
definitely not freak out when collection folders are missing. Perhaps
Mark will know something as he's spent a lot of time fixing the
collection scanner.

Casey