Bug 124999

Summary:	Database rebuild occurs if music folder is empty (forgot to mount external drive)
Product:	[Applications] amarok	Reporter:	Josh Green <josh>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Amarok Developers <amarok-bugs-dist>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.4-beta2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Josh Green 2006-04-05 23:53:01 UTC

Version:           1.4-beta2 (using KDE KDE 3.4.2)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc 3.4.4 
OS:                Linux

My music is contained on an external USB drive and I have a symlink in my home directory pointing to its mount point.  If I forget to mount it, then amarok will clear out database and I have to quit, mount the drive, and then restart it, whereapon the database is rebuilt.  Would be nice if Amarok could detect that no music files exist and do nothing.

Comment 1 Alexandre Oliveira 2006-04-06 02:58:51 UTC

Currently, doing nothing would be very bad, as the files would be shown as available on context and collection browsers. Anyway, I think what you really want is proper support for removable media.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87391 ***