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evert_

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Registered: 2007-07-27

Posts: 30

[Solved] Strange problem with my '/home/evert/Music' folder

Good evening everybody,

I'm having since a few weeks some very strange problems with one directory on my hard disk: '/home/evert/Music/'.
The problem is that this directory excists, with all it's subfolders. But i can't see a single file (mostly mp3's) in that folder or subfolders.

Some more background information to make sure i'm not doing something wrong :

http://pastebin.be/4419 : the log file of a 'mpd --create-db' command. This clearly shows that mpd fills his database with the music. And even more, i'm able to play all that music.

evert@localhost ~/Music $ du --max-depth=1 -h -c | tail -n 1
15G     total

So this folder really excists and is filled with a lot of music files normally .

evert@localhost ~/Music/Metallica/loaded $ ls -a
.  ..

Strange ? In this folder really was music acording to the mpd --create-db log file ?!

drwxr-xr-x 161 evert users   8192 2007-08-10 17:57 Music

As user i'm having all rights to this folder, so that isn't the fault.
Even when trying to see the files, neither konq in su mode or MC works.

Anybody who knows something more about this problem or could help me a bith further pls ?  I'm running XFS as filesystem on this partition.

Thanks in advance,
Evert

Last edited by evert_ (2007-08-13 19:23:36)

evert_

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Registered: 2007-07-27

Posts: 30

Re: [Solved] Strange problem with my '/home/evert/Music' folder

Little bump, but really nobody who can help me with this ? This is quite annoying .

shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: [Solved] Strange problem with my '/home/evert/Music' folder

Using find ~/Music , you don't see any files ?

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evert_

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Registered: 2007-07-27

Posts: 30

Re: [Solved] Strange problem with my '/home/evert/Music' folder

http://rafb.net/p/Rwmdd245.html

ataraxia

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 1,553

Re: [Solved] Strange problem with my '/home/evert/Music' folder

You don't have a weird alias for 'ls' that makes it break do you?

evert_

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Registered: 2007-07-27

Posts: 30

Re: [Solved] Strange problem with my '/home/evert/Music' folder

No ofcourse not, i even wouldn't know how to make 'weird aliases' .

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: [Solved] Strange problem with my '/home/evert/Music' folder

You don't have anything in ~/Music/Metallica/loaded but you have stuff in ~/Music/Music/Metallica/loaded
It's really an awful mess, I would suggest you clean your music folders.

Btw for searching filenames, you can do something like : find ~/Music -iname "metallica"
iname for case insensitive, name for case sensitive

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MrWeatherbee

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Registered: 2007-08-01

Posts: 277

Re: [Solved] Strange problem with my '/home/evert/Music' folder

You don't have anything in ~/Music/Metallica/loaded but you have stuff in ~/Music/Music/Metallica/loaded
It's really an awful mess, I would suggest you clean your music folders.

Shall he clean his room, too?

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: [Solved] Strange problem with my '/home/evert/Music' folder

You don't have anything in ~/Music/Metallica/loaded but you have stuff in ~/Music/Music/Metallica/loaded
It's really an awful mess, I would suggest you clean your music folders.

Shall he clean his room, too?

If his home is as messy as his $HOME, then yes, totally.

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evert_

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Registered: 2007-07-27

Posts: 30

Re: [Solved] Strange problem with my '/home/evert/Music' folder

Ok, really thanks. My music was indeed in /home/evert/Music/Muisc, i wouldn't know how it got there. But the most important thing is that i got it back.

I shall clean my /home , my /Music and my 'real home' today. Thanks for that tip, it was quite necessary.

MrWeatherbee

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Registered: 2007-08-01

Posts: 277

Re: [Solved] Strange problem with my '/home/evert/Music' folder

Nevermind. I didn't see the [SOLVED] post, so I posted some suggestions that are now irrelevant.

Anyway, equally good luck with cleaning your home ... you may find a long lost $100 bill in the process.

Last edited by MrWeatherbee (2007-08-13 19:54:37)