File Monitoring

Confused · Post by **Confused** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 11:02 am

I have just upgraded to MM3 Gold from MM2.

I am having difficulty getting the file monitor to monitor my music folder on a networked drive. The options/file monitor menu find the correct drive and allows me to choose it but it does not monitor it. If I select another folder to monitor on the laptop I am using( that is not the networked one) it correctly monitors it.

If I use the Add/Rescan option from the File menu it correctly starts reading the files on the networked drive.

This worked fine with MM2.

Any ideas?

Post by **Lowlander** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 9:50 pm

I assume you are using a mapped drive? This doesn't always work well with MediaMonkey so using the network path (UNC) is advised instead.

When you start MediaMonkey does window have the drive mapped correctly? If you open the mapped drive location in Windows Explorer before starting MediaMonkey and start MediaMonkey does it now work?

SimonB · Post by **SimonB** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:12 am

I'm using MM3 and don't have this problem at all. I have a server containing all my music and MM3 finds it quite happily. I use a network share so MM is monitoring \\server name\share name and that seems to work fine even when I moved the actual directory on the server that was shared as "share name".

Hope that helps.

Confused · Post by **Confused** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:08 pm

I am not sure what a mapped drive is!

I have an external hard drive connected to my PC in another room which I access though a wireless network with my laptop.

I tried opening the music folder with explorer before opening MM3 but this did not help.

I know file monitoring is not avaliable on the free version of MM3 and wonder if this is something to do with it - even though I have Gold Lifetime license?

real_per · Post by **real_per** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:53 pm

I'm having this exact same problem.

It's not a mapped drive, but a UNC path. I've tried having the folders open, while opening Mediamonkey but it didn't fix it.
Monitoring on a local drive works fine.

What can I do to get it to work ?
I expected it to work, since i bought the Gold version.

JazzMC · Post by **JazzMC** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:05 pm

Same problem here:

I have MM 2.x, and sometimes the file monitor option works, sometimes it just ignores file deletions and movements (the same folders sometimes work, sometimes not).

My files are on an external HD attached to my laptop (as with some of the people above in this post).

I tried searching this forum for other posts, but strangely, when I input either "file monitor" or ""file monitor"" (meaning the two words in quotation marks), it does not find e.g. this topic; I only got here by using "monitor" only). Maybe someone knows a post where this has been discussed and solved?

Thanks,

Jan

nohitter151 · Post by **nohitter151** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 11:17 pm

I am not very knowledgeable on networked drives as I don't use one, but these all look like useful links that I've found by searching:

From FAQ:
http://www.mediamonkey.com/support/inde ... ticleid=69
http://www.mediamonkey.com/support/inde ... ticleid=68

Forum posts:
http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... or+network
http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... or+network
http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... or+network
http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... or+network
http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... or+network

JazzMC · Post by **JazzMC** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:03 am

I got it!

My own nearsightedness, if you will. My guess is that this might have happened to other people with external drives as well, if they use Windows.

There is no guarantee that Windows will always assign the same drive letter to an external drive, even if you always plug it into the same USB port. With other peripherals in before it, getting to the same letter the drive would usually get, apparently (I did some googling), there are no geandfather rights for any device.

I had recently scrapped the database, and redid the scanning, and by coincidence, that time, the drive had been assigned a letter (F) it does not usually get (it traditionally gets H, for some reason I don't know). Because I also changed the main music path, I reentered the information the file monitor needs, which, this time, got him a path like F:\...

Since now, the drive is getting the H assigned again (even though F remains unused), the monitoring function was using the wrong path.

D'oh ...

Btw, does MM3 have the following option (speaking of monitoring):

in MM2, ONLY the monitor deletes files not present in a folder anymore; the start-up scan does not. Has this been changed in MM3? Would be a main reason for me to switch. Imagine the following scenario:

15.000 MP3s in about 100 different musical categories (each its own folder), and I get a 100 new ones to distribute into that. Among thos files are some I replace existing files with (better bitrates, etc.), and I also move files between directories. Unfortunately, while I do that, I forget to keep MM running, so the new/changed files/locations are not integrated into the database. With MM2, I would now need to either trash the database and do a rescan (which takes time), or update every single folder by hand that has been added to, and even with that, the deleted/moved files would still be there, so I would need to delete the duplicate DB entries by hand.

The feature I really need is for the stratup scan or the update folder scan to include pruning of files not there anymore, which, as far as I know, is not included at this point.

Jan

Post by **Lowlander** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 12:02 pm

I propose that the File Monitor just like the library uses the driveID instead of drive letter. This would solve the issue of external drives receiving different drives letters from Windows.

I personally would like the same for Auto-Organize Files but I can see that this could be undesirable for other users.

File Monitoring

File Monitoring

File Monitoring

Same problem here

Resolved!