It seems that the default behavior of Rhythmbox is to silently remove any files it cannot find from the database. I can see why this behavior would have been implemented, but there is a problem. I have all my music on NFS filesystems. For some reason or another, the music share didn't get mounted. Now completely unaware of this, I fired up Rhythmbox, which immidiately proceeded to completely empty out the database without asking a thing. At the very least, I believe there should be a confirmation dialog, especially when several thousand entries are being removed in one go. Why not have a "Clean Database" menu command that would walk through the database and remove files that were unavailable? Running Rhythmbox 0.8.8 on a Gentoo AMD64 box... -Juha "Demosh" Sorensen
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