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--- a/src/qtgui/guiutils.cpp
+++ b/src/qtgui/guiutils.cpp
@@ -303,8 +303,23 @@
 	    }
 	}
 
-        //Get the "active external indexes":
+        // Get the remembered "active external indexes":
         prefs.activeExtraDbs = g_dynconf->getStringList(actEdbsSk);
+
+	// Clean up the list: remove directories which are not
+	// actually there: useful for removable volumes.
+	for (list<string>::iterator it = prefs.activeExtraDbs.begin();
+	     it != prefs.activeExtraDbs.end();) {
+	    if (!Rcl::Db::testDbDir(*it)) {
+		LOGINFO(("Not a xapian index: [%s]\n", it->c_str()));
+		it = prefs.activeExtraDbs.erase(it);
+	    } else {
+		it++;
+	    }
+	}
+
+	// Get active db directives from the environment. This can only add to
+	// the remembered and cleaned up list
         const char *cp4Act;
         if ((cp4Act = getenv("RECOLL_ACTIVE_EXTRA_DBS")) != 0) {
             vector<string> dbl;
@@ -325,6 +340,7 @@
             } //for
         } //if
     }
+
 #if 0
     {
 	list<string>::const_iterator it;