Database Issues

[ts_eliot]

OK, I'll warn people straight off that I'm a complete idiot at times, so this may be a really dumb question with the easiest fix in the world, so apologies if it is

So, I installed Rockbox on my ipod nano (2nd gen) yesterday. It worked fine for a while, until I somehow managed to screw it up, the ipod screamed *PANIC* at me for a while, and I had to reinstall Rockbox. No problems.

However, since then, I can't access my music. When I go onto the database, and initialize it, it says, "Building database... XXX found" where XXX is a random number, somewhere between 315 and 463. It does this every time. I'd understand if that was how many songs it was looking for (although I'd question why the number changes every time I go into it) but I know for a fact that there are only 5 songs on the ipod. I wiped it before I installed rockbox, and then added a single EP to test run it.

So... any suggestions?

[karashata]

Delete the database files from the .rockbox folder, then reboot your iPod and the problem should go away.

[ts_eliot]

The only database file I can see in there is 'database.ignore' - is that it, or is there anything else I should be deleting (or, for that matter, is the fact that that's the only folder an issue in itself?)

Also, deleting 'database.ignore' doesn't do anything.

[karashata]

database.ignore is a (usually empty) file that just tells the database to skip scanning that particular folder when looking for files to populate the database. It's probably a good idea to keep that file in the .rockbox folder to prevent unnecessary scanning through it and its subfolders when building the database.

The number of files found would be *all* files in folders not containing a database.ignore file, not just music files. You might need to check for any files hiding in a trash folder or any other junk files (there's a disktidy plugin in Plugins - Applications that will clean up many "junk" files from Mac, Windows, and Linux, including their respective trash files/folders) and clean them off.

Other than that I'm afraid I don't know of anything else you could do. I misunderstood your first post, deleting any existing database files wouldn't help since the database isn't even being built properly.

[ts_eliot]

Well, the problem's solved, kinda. Ended up changing the music I had on there, and that somehow stopped the database from being weird.

Still no idea what caused it, but hey, I won't complain

Thanks for the help anyhow (also, thanks in particular for the disktidy thing. I probably wouldn't have noticed it if you hadn't pointed it out).