[maemo-users] How to restore multimedia files back to N900 after updating PR1.2

[From: Paul Hartman]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:35 AM, khalid khan <khalidreach at rcg.tv> wrote:
> Yesterday I received OTA ! for Maemo 5 from Nokia, It deemed to look like an
> over the air update but actually it asked me to connect via USB to PC having
> Nokia Software Updater
> After I updated my N900 from version 3 to new firmware 10.2010.19-1.003 the
> ussd is working fine & also the gtalk video calls are quite good.
> But Unfortunately my multimedia (video,photos,songs) are not showing up even
> though it is already in  there in respective folder path (video folder,songs
> folder & photos folder)
> I can watch video if i go through the whole path that is Device memory-Video
> folder - Respective File same way to photos & songs.
> So Is this an bug from PR1.2 update or there is no option provided & user
> needs to store back freshly all the files to show up in the multimedia.

Same thing happened to me. I had to force it to rebuild the tracker
database and then everything showed up again.

You can open xterm and run "tracker-processes -r" or install
tracker-cfg from extras-devel which has GUI to edit tracker options as
well as restart/rebuild etc.