q. I'm trying to get Amarok to import my mp3 collection on a samba share but it keeps freezing in the middle of a scan. what should I do?

a. The only solution I've found so far is to check the amarok collection log to see it has really halted with tail -f .kde/share/apps/amarok/collection_scan.log and then unmount the share with sudo umount -l /mnt/sharemount/ and then immediately sudo mount /mnt/sharemount/

I'm fairly sure there is a better way than this but I so far haven't found it. Plus this doesn't always work. It depends how choked up the samba mount has become.

It should be noted that if you are only doing linux to linux network file-sharing that NFS is probably a better option than samba.

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