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So I have two drives that I use as mirrors of one another.  One is in Ext4 which I primarily work out of under Ubuntu and the other is NTFS for Windows which only gets used with VirtualDJ (haven't gotten used to MIXX yet and it does video.)

Anyway I had them named Expansion Drive and Expansion Backup.  I figured a more logical naming would be in order so I renamed Expansion Backup to Ext4 2GB.  Well I loaded up gmusicbrowser and it couldn't find anything because it was still going off the old volume name.  I renamed it back and all was good again.  However this does highlight a problem.

I had a similar issue when moving all of my music out of /m(for media)/Music to just /m (because on NTFS I was hitting the character limit on some directories/files.) Then it didn't know where my music was even though it was just one directory up.  Obviously I didn't want to put it back so I had to reload the entire library.  (This was before I copied everything to the new drive.)

My point is there should be a way to go in (through the program itself) and modify the library location volume and directory.  If there is one I didn't see it.
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Questions / Library erases?
October 26, 2011, 18:03:59
Hey, new guy here, new to the forums and linux.  I've been a windows guy for 13 years and finally got tired of it.  Although I have had some experience with the BSD's (Open and Free) and just switched to Ubuntu 11.04 then upgraded to 11.10.

So I'm pulling all of my music from the external NTFS drive.  I'm a DJ too so it's quite a bit to load.

I loaded all my music and then it saved it, after a few days it didn't see the library as if it was erased or never existed in the first place.  I thought that was odd but may have just been a one time quirk and loaded it again.  Then when I shut down and reloaded it did the exact same thing to me.

Does anyone have any idea what might be going on?  Banshee is alright I guess but it said this was specifically tailored to large collections and Banshee grinds my computer to a halt when trying to load everything.