Rockbox Database finds 9000 files - there are only 6000 on drive!

[yonkiman]

When I rebuild my database (which I've been doing a lot lately as I've tried to debug a different problem), it finds the first few 1000 songs very quickly, the next 1000 slower,  the next 1000 slower, and it just gets slower and slower until it's only finding about one song per second.  Right now the "building database" status is at 9272 songs (and creeping up slowly), but I only have 6,483 songs on the 60GB ipod video I'm using.  The original ipod database is completely empty.  I'm only using 30GB out of the 60GB available.  I have database.ignore in every directory except the one with the music.  My files are all mp3 or ogg.

This has been the behavior for months if not years, so I'm guessing most other people aren't running into this...  What could it be?  I've seen people posting about Sansas that are doing something similar to this, and the problem seemed to be disk errors or not enough disk space - I don't have either of those problems.

[bluebrother]

Have you checked if there is a hidden Recycle Bin folder on the player that contains additiona files? Windows likes to create this folder.

[yonkiman]

Have you checked if there is a hidden Recycle Bin folder on the player that contains additiona files? Windows likes to create this folder.

Thanks for the suggestion blue brother, but the answer's "Nope" - no trash or other hidden files...

I'm surprised there haven't been more responses to this; that usually means:

• I'm the only one having this problem, or
• Everyone has this problem and this question has been asked and answered so many times that it's ignored

If it's the former, then it must have something to do with the files I'm putting on the system.  Because the hardware (60G ipod video) is pretty common and I've had this problem for about at least a year's worth of various rockbox builds.

I guess that's the direction I'll proceed...

[shayguitarra]

The same thing happens to me with my 80gig ipod video, although I don't have any problem with speed. It never seems to create any duplicates so I've never worried about it.

I've always put it down to the fact that I have album art in all of my folders, or else that it's counting the folders themselves as files. Just a thought.

[Lear]

From what I can tell by reading the code, the "entries" number refers to the total number of files and directories found, regardless of type.