Rhythmbox sync to library deleted all my music files

[Jason Kern]

I use an external usb drive to store my music, I added the music folder on my external usb as the library in preferences. Now when I did this it did not look like it was adding anything to the library so I clicked import folder and imported the music folder from the external usb drive. This imported all my files however they did not show up in library under music, showed all my files under devices which is not what I wanted as it was having to rescan the library every time I started the program. Then I clicked the sync to library button which deleted all my files without so much as asking me. Ubuntu 12.04 beta 1 and rhythmbox 2.95.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Nick (nade57)]

Ya i set my music folder in rythmbox to my music folder on my old windows partition which worked fine if i had it mounted. Then i started listening to the music and it started skipping to the next song for no reason so i clicked stopped closed rythmbox and opened it again. When i re-opened it all my music was no longer in the library i thought it was just a glitch but when i checked the actual folder it was emtpy also.

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect <bug #> and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for rhythmbox (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[J5stin (j5stin)]

I have a second hard drive that I mount which contains all my music. Changed the rhythym box directory to the mounted drive after I upgraded to 14.04. Worked OK for a while. THis morning when I started up it started listing all the music in the the directory and then it all disappeared. Looked at the drive and the folder was deleted.

[kthx (kthx)]

WHY IS THIS EXPIRED?

This should be a TOP PRIORITY, Rythmbox deleted my entire library too... What right does Rythmbox have to delete my music? That was a 10 year old collection and now it is ALL gone...

This is an important issue, and should be reopened and marked CRITICAL!

[kthx (kthx)]

I just wanted to note, that I did not "sync" I simply added my music folder. It decided I guess to "sync" automatically, or it just decided it wanted to delete my files.

Deletion of any files "en masse" is a dangerous thing regardless of file contents, hence why I suggested it be a "critical" issue.

[Habibun Noby (habibun)]

Rhythmbox sync to library deleted all my music files

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner.

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue using a maintained version of Ubuntu then please let us know otherwise this report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for rhythmbox (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]