rhythmbox-missing files??

[adduds]

Just a quick rhythmbox question:

For example:

first boot up my computer open up rythmbox my whole hard drive that i use for music just comes up as missing files until i go to places click on it and shows up on my desktop?

does this have to do with mounting the hd on startup?

[adduds]

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[adduds]

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[jean noel]

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Are your music files on a separate partition?
If so, you will have to mount them if you want rhythmbox to find them. After a hard disk failure, I moved my whole music folder on a second hard disk.
I have to mount the drive before my music is found. Annoying, but easily done.
Jean Noel

[adduds]

can i do this on bootup as part of start up?

[Linyx]

can i do this on bootup as part of start up?

You have to mount that Drive(which contain your music) on boot-up....You can simply do it via Editing FSTAB.....

You can do it through easy GUI-TOOLS as well > http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/automount_ntfs.html

> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=785263

But i will suggest you to manually EDIT your FSTAB for Auto-mounting.................

[adduds]

ty i manually edited my fstab ..

question on why it partially worked...

originally i was writing

/dev/sda   /media/sda  ntfs   defaults   0   0

Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xadadadad

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1      121601   976760001    7  HPFS/NTFS

then

toews@desktop:~$ sudo mount -a
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sda': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sda' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?

So i used this

/dev/sda1   /media/sda  ntfs   defaults   0   0

Now i can sudo mount -a without error but when i open rhythmbox i still get "missing files" until i double click on the all_media on my desktop.....

weird thing is though i can play my music from the harddrive in rhythmbox but it doesn't show the music i've created in playlists.....

thanks for the help

[Linyx]

The Partition for which you had add a line in fstab was Auto-mounting ....?In this case /dev/sda1....

Edit:- Post the output of

sudo blkid

Also

sudo fdisk -l

[adduds]

toews@desktop:~$ sudo blkid
[sudo] password for toews: 
/dev/sda1: LABEL="all_Media" UUID="50FC2F99FC2F787C" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sdb1: UUID="DE281C19281BEF71" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sdb5: UUID="1e4c3dc0-2e96-44d2-beb4-fcec826014cc" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="My Passport" UUID="6258-7DA7" TYPE="vfat"

toews@desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xadadadad

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1      121601   976760001    7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x067b70a4

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1       12163    97699266    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2           12164       24322    97657857    5  Extended
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb5           12164       24322    97657856   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdc: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x358d73c5

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1               1       38913   312568641    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)

[Linyx]

Is your drive Auto-mounting...?you didn't answer....

Replace the line which you had added in fstab on the below given line....its better to mount the Drive by it UUID....

dev/disk/by-uuid/50FC2F99FC2F787C /media/all_media ntfs defaults,utf8,umask=007,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 1

Just Copy and paste this line so that you won't mistake....Save it & Reboot.

And see if that disk is mounting at Boot or not...?