Collections on External HDD

[Leonardo Franchi]

On Sunday 08 February 2009 13:31:40 Casey Link wrote:
> > 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.


This is the whole dynamic collection feature that we had in Amarok 1. Sadly 
this has not yet been ported to 2.0. However, i'm not sure where to start 
looking---sending an email to maxx_k is probably the best bet for pointers.

Leo