I think my 30GB took about 5 hours, disk-to-disk.

That sounds about right. I had 13 GB of data, it took a bit under three hours.

However... I still have problems.

Even after 3 hours of copying files, my player tells me that there are no songs or playlists. Emplode tells me the same thing... except that at the bottom of the Emplode window it tells me Est. Free Space: 24.2 GB, Capacity: 37.1 GB. This would strongly suggest that there is indeed about 13 GB of data on my hard drive. Now the only question is, how do I get to it?

I tried the FAQ trick here of deleting /empeg/var/database, power cycling and doing a synch, but that caused no change in behavior.

Poking around at the command shell is not enlightening to me, because I don't remember enough about Linux (it's been ten years or more since I worked with any *nix system) to know what I'm looking for. But I sure can't seem to find any directories with any substantial amount of data.

Can anyone offer any helpful suggestions here?

tanstaafl.