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aLiase

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Registered: 2007-10-24

Posts: 21

amarok problem.....

Hi guys,

So, I'm having this problem where my collection in amarok would disappear everytime I start KDE ( I have amarok start automatically when I start kde ), I even tried deleting the whole amarok folder under ~/.kde and even the whole ~/.kde folder itself, but still doesn't work.

The thing is it just doesn't happen all the time, but sometimes, and when it happens I have to do a rescan everytime, and I'm going crazy because I think my hdds gonna die everytime I do a rescan, since it pretty old >_>.

Also sometimes for some reason it also stops recognizing what my collection folder is, so I have to go to Configure amarok --- > Collection and reselect my music folder.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Damnshock

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From: Barcelona

Registered: 2006-09-13

Posts: 414

Re: amarok problem.....

Check you've got enough free space on your home folder and any temporary partition

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aLiase

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Registered: 2007-10-24

Posts: 21

Re: amarok problem.....

df -h give me this, so yes I do have enough space.

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdd1              14G  1.8G   12G  14% /
none                  1.2G     0  1.2G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdd2              19G  1.6G   16G   9% /usr
/dev/sdd3              73G   18G   55G  25% /home
/dev/sdd5             4.6G  138M  4.5G   3% /Stepmania
/dev/sda1              14G  5.0G  8.9G  36% /mnt/virtualbox
/dev/sdb1              14G  2.3G   12G  17% /mnt/virtualbox/driveD
/dev/sdc1             7.8G  146M  7.7G   2% /mnt/virtualbox/driveE

aLiase

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Registered: 2007-10-24

Posts: 21

Re: amarok problem.....

bump, this problem is really bothering me, it doing it every time kde restart now.

somairotevoli

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Registered: 2006-05-23

Posts: 335

Re: amarok problem.....

What database are you using for Amarok?

aLiase

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Registered: 2007-10-24

Posts: 21

Re: amarok problem.....

What database are you using for Amarok?

sqlite3

Damnshock

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From: Barcelona

Registered: 2006-09-13

Posts: 414

Re: amarok problem.....

Try using mysql and we'll know if it's a database problem

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Snarkout

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Registered: 2005-11-13

Posts: 542

Re: amarok problem.....

I use sqlite, and I have no problem at all with my collection, so I doubt it's got anything to do with database.  Could you give a little more info about your collecion location, your amarok setup, etc?  Is it possible that you have your collection on a partition that isn't mounted yet when amarok starts?  I assume you are using Autostart to launch amarok when KDE logs you in.  You get the idea - not much info to go on here, other than your collection is disappearing and it's bugging you.

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aLiase

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Registered: 2007-10-24

Posts: 21

Re: amarok problem.....

Thanks for the reply

I think I fixed the problem by starting amarok using 'amarokapp %U', instead of just 'amarokapp'  not sure what the %U did but my collection doesn't seem to disappear anymore.

@Snarkout: I'm starting amarok and all my other programs, using the "Restore previous session" that KDE has.