I had a few thousand photos on my n900 (taking advantage of that 32gb flash {27 usable actually}, some was on a 4gb microsd) so of course "photos" app found them and I could scroll through them... Ive since removed all these photos from my n900, but photos still thinks theyre there and i have endless black photos images when I open the photos app... it seems to be slowing other things down... is there a way to reset the photos app or take care of this some other way?


Also, I have about 20gb worth of music saved on the 32gb flash memory, and i have many duplicate songs that show up in the music player for some reason... ive gone through the music folder and manually checked and confirmed that I dont have these duplicates, but media player lists these duplicates and its a little annoying when it jumps around songs and says "unable to play/find file"... is there a fix for this as well?

Had a similar problem it's a problem with the tracker. It's a while since it happened and i dont recall exactly how I got it working again. I remember the standard restarting of the daemon. Tracker cf, available in the repos, was how I finally resolved the problem.

in case anyone wonders. I happened to have a new microsd on the way (4gb replaced by 16gb!) and the duplicate photos problem seems to be resolved... Maybe I will reformat the old 4gb while its out. Not sure about the music yet.

You run X Terminal and you run this as normal user:
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What it does is it erases the database containing information in regards to music, photos, videos, etc and kills the trackerd itself.

After you issued that command you may need to run mediaplayer a few times until you get a banner saying something like `Estimated time'

As Mike Fila said, there's a program named Tracker Cfg. If you're not into hand editing /home/user/.config/tracker/tracker.cfg then Tracker Cfg would be a slightly more suitable tool here for editing the config file, resetting or even killing tracker-processes through the program.