[Rhythmbox-devel] Re: Irritating bug

[Derrick Ashby <daeroncs ozemail com au>]

Folks,

I've had this same issue in relation to missing network shares when I've 
inadvertantly rebooted the desktop machine before the server after 
shutting down my home network on a couple of occasions. I am now 
contemplating moving my music files temporarily to another machine while 
I rebuild the server. I am wondering how to do this without losing all 
my rhythmbox data.

Derrick

> AFAIK, this can be solved easily, when importing songs, RB should check
> if files are on a mount. If they are, only delete em when mount is
> actually mounted, else just temporarily hide em.
>
> The mounting part is easy, the hiding involves a bit more work.
>
> Now if only my C skills were a bit better...
>
> Greetings, Ruben
>
> On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 16:39 +0100, A. S. Budden wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I'm using Rhythmbox 0.8.4 on Mandrake 10 Official.  Since I use a laptop
> > with a relatively small hard drive, I keep all of my music on an
> > external firewire drive.  I don't carry this drive around with me and I
> > have it set up to mount only when I tell it to.  Unfortunately, this
> > causes major problems if I accidentally run Rhythmbox without mounting
> > the drive.  The library is instantly cleared and all my static playlists
> > are wiped.  I spent absolutely ages preparing the playlists and it's
> > exceedingly frustrating seeing rhythmbox zap them without even telling
> > me that it's doing so.
> >
> > I'm sending this email in order to beg someone to fix this bug as it is
> > driving me up the wall.  Next time I can be bothered to spend the time
> > making the playlists I'll try to remember to back up the playlists.xml
> > file, but it's still irritating having to wait while Rhythmbox rescans
> > 25GB of mp3s for the ID3 tags -- a process which is far from instant
> > over a firewire link.
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Al
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