audio folder won't open to show contents, and won't play any files

[squinty]

I've had a Gigabeat F-40 up and running with Rockbox for the last 2 weeks.

This evening I tried playing it and I could see the music folders, but the folders wouldn't open to show the songs or play them.  All I could see was the white screen, with the battery indicator, volume, and time showing at the top.  

I had a build from 070109 on it when this problem began, and tried updating to 070111 with no success.

With the new build, now I am unable to even get the music folders to show when pressing the A button.  The only way I can get the the music folders to display is to reboot the player.

I currently have about 5 folders on the player with 6 or 8 songs in each folder.  

The plugins still work and I can move all around in that, and also in any of the other settings.  

I tried searching for similar problems, but nothing seemed to compare.  Any ideas??

Thanks, Ken

[squinty]

Hi again,

I have this problem fixed.  Apparently, the wife got into the setup files while trying to play it, and changed a setting for File View.  There are so many settings that control how Rockbox works, it would be nice if they could be locked against changes with a keypress or something similar.  

I have some other issues that I need to resolve, not critical but irritating.   At least it plays again.  

Ken.  

[xlarge]

Write your config to a file then if it happens again you can always let rockbox read your old config and everything is as it should be again.
(does rockbox respect writeprotected files? if that's the case you could enable the read-only flag on the file aswell so your wife (or yourself ) won't be able to overwrite it)

[squinty]

Thanks xlarge,

Sounds good to creating a file for quick replacement of settings.  I've made some mods to the image files in wps, so when I update the daily build, I just need to overwrite the files to get back to what I've created.  I'd include language file and font file mods in that  permanent file to reload those that I use.  It doesn't make much sense to maintain all the language files in Rockbox if all one needs is English.  The same for fonts.  What is used as a default in Rockbox is way too small to use comfortably, so I just load a few of the available fonts for my own use, and delete the extra garbage that I'd never need or use.

Ken