recognizing changes in files
Orcan Ogetbil
oget.fedora at gmail.com
Sat Jun 6 04:33:30 UTC 2009
I sent this message to the list yesterday but it got lost in some dark
corner of www. Resending:
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Mark Kretschmann wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 6:13 AM, Mark Kretschmann wrote:
>>>
>>> PS: While most file systems support mtime, a minority of them doesn't.
>>> Among those is FAT32, and possibly also NFS, which would explain your
>>> problems.
>>>
>> Since this topic came up I'd like to ask one question. Currently all
>> my audio files that I want to access from amarok collection are
>> sitting in one directory. The directory and its contents reside in one
>> ext3 partition (no symlinks to other partitions). When I try scanning
>> this directory for adding to the collection, only ~10% of my audio
>> files are scanned. ~90% of my audio files (mostly mp3, but also some
>> mpc and ogg) do not show up in the amarok collection. Some first order
>> subdirectories are not even touched. I tried both importing my amarok
>> 1.4 playlist and creating the playlist from scratch. Same results. Any
>> ideas why this is happening to me?
>
> Yes, this sounds like you've hit a bug in the collection scanner code
> that I fixed a few days ago:
>
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176154
>
> --
> Mark Kretschmann
> Amarok Developer
> www.kde.org - amarok.kde.org
>
This bug came back with amarok 2.1. It was fine up until 2.0.2. I
wanted to report it in the above bug but I couldn't figure out how to
reopen it.
Orcan
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