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Unable to restore Amarok settings

Asked by Alex Hawdon

I've recently upgraded from Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) to Ubuntu 8.04 (Gutsy) and am having problems transferring my Amarok settings (going from Amarok version 1.4.5 to 1.4.9.1).

I attempted to backup and restore the ~/.kde directory, however, upon starting the new version of Amarok the settings have NOT transferred correctly. (My music collection IS in the same place it used to be)

What do I need to do to get my music collection, playlists and ratings back!

Thanks and regards,

Alex

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Lydia Pintscher (lydia-pintscher) said : 		#1

Please make a backup of your settings and then do a full rescan. You can find it under tools in the menu.
Does that help?

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Alex Hawdon (alexhawdon) said : 		#2

I still have the backup of my original settings - the upgrade process was to tar up my home directory, flatted Feisty and do a fresh install of Hardy (sorry! got my namings wrong above!!) then cherry-pick settings from the tar file.

So a full rescan should re-detect all the media and then tie it up with my old playlists and ratings etc?

I will give this a go when I'm back at my computer (at work now...)

Thanks and regards,

Alex

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Lydia Pintscher (lydia-pintscher) said : 		#3

Yes. Of course you need to copy the right settings.
You need at least ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/collection.db and ~.kde/share/config/amarokrc.
For playlists and stuff probably more from ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok is needed.

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Alex Hawdon (alexhawdon) said : 		#4

i just restored the entire ~/.kde/ directory structure which included all these files. I trust this was the correct thing to do? (Just a little confused why it needs re-scanning... I was expecting it to fire up and look exactly the same as it used to...)

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Lydia Pintscher (lydia-pintscher) said : 		#5

see http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Dynamic_Collection and http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Amarok_File_Tracking
After a reinstall the ID Amarok uses to identify your HDD might have changed and a full rescan is needed to pick it up again.

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