the issue i am having has been narrowed down quite a bit through various posts from here and on google. the set up is amarok 2.3.1, kde 4.4.5 and fedora 13. when i am scanning my collection amarok crashes. the music is on a second mounted hard drive with an ntfs formatting. i have copied the same folder to a ext3 formatted second hard drive, my main linux partition (ext4) and its location on my third ntfs drive. from my linux partition and from the ext3 partition the folder is scanned fine but on the ntfs partition it fails to complete and crashes.

i tried amarokcollectionscanner stand alone it scanned the entire ntfs partition fine but when scanned from amarok through the rescan collection button, it crashes. it is about 200 gigs of music so i am not really keen on moving the entire collection. i have been working on this for a while and have not figured out a work around or how to fix this...any input would be great. on fedora 11 with whatever amarok everything worked fine...

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here is the last bits of string from amarok --debug before it crashed...

amarok: BEGIN: bool PlaylistManager::import(const QString&)
amarok: BEGIN: virtual bool Playlists::PlaylistFileProvider::import(const KUrl&)
amarok: Importing playlist file KUrl("file:///hds/hdc/music/mp3_albums/rap_hip-hop/Black Eyed Peas - Behind the Front/Behind the Front.m3u")
amarok: END__: virtual bool Playlists::PlaylistFileProvider::import(const KUrl&) - Took 0.00081s
amarok: END__: bool PlaylistManager::import(const QString&) - Took 0.00087s
role 0 : ( QString ) : QVariant(QString, "Playlist Files on Disk")
"index 710 belongs to group Playlist Files on Disk"
role 0 : ( QString ) : QVariant(QString, "Playlist Files on Disk")
"index 709 belongs to group Playlist Files on Disk"
role 0 : ( QString ) : QVariant(QString, "Playlist Files on Disk")
"index 708 belongs to group Playlist Files on Disk"
amarok: [WARNING!] DEPRECATED: bool PlaylistManager::import(const QString&)

amarok: BEGIN: bool PlaylistManager::import(const QString&)
amarok: BEGIN: virtual bool Playlists::PlaylistFileProvider::import(const KUrl&)
amarok: Importing playlist file KUrl("file:///hds/hdc/music/mp3_albums/rap_hip-hop/Black Eyed Peas - Bridging the Gap/Bridging The Gap.m3u")
amarok: END__: virtual bool Playlists::PlaylistFileProvider::import(const KUrl&) - Took 0.00072s
amarok: END__: bool PlaylistManager::import(const QString&) - Took 0.00077s
role 0 : ( QString ) : QVariant(QString, "Playlist Files on Disk")
"index 707 belongs to group Playlist Files on Disk"
role 0 : ( QString ) : QVariant(QString, "Playlist Files on Disk")
"index 706 belongs to group Playlist Files on Disk"
amarok: [WARNING!] DEPRECATED: bool PlaylistManager::import(const QString&)

amarok: BEGIN: bool PlaylistManager::import(const QString&)
amarok: BEGIN: virtual bool Playlists::PlaylistFileProvider::import(const KUrl&)
amarok: Importing playlist file KUrl("file:///hds/hdc/music/mp3_albums/rap_hip-hop/Black Star - Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star/Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star.m3u")
amarok: END__: virtual bool Playlists::PlaylistFileProvider::import(const KUrl&) - Took 0.0011s
amarok: END__: bool PlaylistManager::import(const QString&) - Took 0.0011s
KCrash: Application 'amarok' crashing...
sock_file=/home/daniel/.kde/socket-Odin/kdeinit4__0

Delete the ~/.kde4/share/apps/amarok/current.xspf and try again.

okay, it was indeed "bad files" in my collection but they were not really bad. i let amarok scan my collection by genre since the 200 gigs are divided into 12 genres. i then let it scan one genre at a time and checked ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/collection...log after it crashed giving me an idea of which file failed. when it was scanning the entire collection though, the scanner continued until it finished the entire collection. once i identified the 4 albums that were causing it to crash, i removed them and let it scan the rest of the collection. after that was done i loaded those 4 albums back into the collection and it scanned those just fine. everything is working nicely now.

thanks for the help and if you are having issues, take it slow and you can figure it out...