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Deleting songs

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tinochew:
I tried to initialize it but i didnt work. is disk tidy on rockbox or do i have to do it from my computer?

crzyboyster:
He's saying that the physical file does not exist on the ipod anymore, but the database entry for it still exists. You need to update your database.

main menu/settings/database/update

soap:

--- Quote from: tinochew on November 18, 2007, 02:05:50 PM ---I tried to initialize it but i didnt work. is disk tidy on rockbox or do i have to do it from my computer?


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Disk Tidy is a plugin.

AlexP:

--- Quote from: crzyboyster on November 18, 2007, 02:14:05 PM ---He's saying that the physical file does not exist on the ipod anymore, but the database entry for it still exists. You need to update your database.

main menu/settings/database/update

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And this is not necessarily true.  When you delete a file in e.g. Windows it sticks it in a hidden folder for the recycle bin.  As such the physical file is still on the disk and will be found by the database.  Disk Tidy will remove these hidden windows (and Linux and Mac do it too) files.

I know he said he deleted in through itunes, and it is possible the same thing happens there - maybe itunes has a recycle bin, maybe it uses the windows API, maybe it leaves the file and just cleans the database.

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