Gutted! Songs all Deleted Again!

[Gutted Songs all Deleted Again]

Hi Gonemad,

It Happened Again Today

Firstly I want to assure you that I am not a numpty & do know what I am doing....I am an IT Software & Hardware Engineer For Siemens of 25 years....

I am able to tell you EXACTLY what happened today..

So you can understand my layout here is an example of my folder structure

/mnt/storage/music/artists & bands/#A
/mnt/storage/music/artists & bands/#B
/mnt/storage/music/artists & bands/#C etc etc

/mnt/storage/music/compilations/#A
/mnt/storage/music/compilations/#B
/mnt/storage/music/compilations/#C etc etc

/mnt/storage/music/soundtracks/#A
/mnt/storage/music/soundtracks/#B
/mnt/storage/music/soundtracks/#C etc etc

the file path of the particular song I wanted to delete was

/mnt/storage/music/artists & bands/#R/Run-D.M.C_\Walk This Way The Best Of Run-Dmc/04-the king of rock.mp3

I had gestures setup to long press to delete the song & after I long pressed I had the option to delete file or folder, I absoloutely guarantee I selected file. After some minutes of not responding the player came back to life but with a black screen & wouldn't play anything in the playlist unless I selected something outside of mnt/storage/artists & bands & sure enough exactly like last time the entire /mnt/storage/music/artists & bands folder was gone! leaving me with just /mnt/storage/music/compilations & /mnt/storage/music/soundtracks. Even if I had selected folder by accident (which I didnt) surely it would have deleted the folder that the song was playing in rathe than the whole (28,000) artists & bands folder? Lastly if it is any help I was playing in shuffle all songs mode....

I would REALLY appreciate it if this could be fixed as I have become quite fond of the player & looking forward to you additional features that are coming.... time to start loading all my songs back on again now

[GoneMAD]

okay.. well from this information i might know the issue

i've experienced weird things with # in filenames before

you tell it to delete
/mnt/storage/music/artists & bands/#R/Run-D.M.C_\Walk This Way The Best Of Run-Dmc/04-the king of rock.mp3

it goes to delete that but the filename gets cut short at the # (unsure why.. it must consider # a special character).. which would be: /mnt/storage/music/artists & bands/ and it tries to delete that.. and well you know the rest

I'll run some test cases tonight and see if I can reproduce it

[mbc0]

Many Thanks Mate,

I Hope it is an easy fix as I use a sync program from my server & everything I have uses # so will be a real ball ache to remove the # ...just on the delete file/folder note is it possible you could add a confirm as I can see that I could press folder instead of file by accident if I went over a bump or something as this is only used in my car...

Cheers....

[GoneMAD]

yea i can add the confirm.. there is already an auto accept confirmation setting in the config that i can hook it up to if people dont want the prompt

[GoneMAD]

okay i was able to reproduce it.. should be pretty fixable.. it looks like it only happens using the gesture way of deleting

[GoneMAD]

fixed it.. should be in 1.1.17 which i'll push to the market in the next few hours

[GoneMAD]

1.1.17 (02/21/2012):
-Fixed bug when trying to delete files/folders with a # in the path name
-Deleting via gesture will now bring up a confirmation prompt. (Preferences->Library->Browser->Delete Without Confirmation) to disable
-Fixed crash when trying to search with no categories selected

[mbc0]

Really appreciate your quick response to this mate, nice to know you are on the ball :-)

Cheers

[GoneMAD]

no prob