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When Sync to USBKey, MM wants to delete non-music files

Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 7:44 pm
by Anubis
I have just set up to sync some music to my 1GB USBKey that has non music files on it that I want to keep.
It asked if I wanted delete these files (one by one), which I answered No, but then when it got into the music, I would have had to answered YES 200 times. I didn't feel that I could answer YES TO ALL, as there were still some non-musaic files it hadn't prompted me for.
Is there any way round this with RC1? I ended up using Windows Explorer to delete all the music files and then syncing, which seems a bit silly.
Thanks

Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 4:05 pm
by Anubis
bump.... does anybody else experience this?

Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 5:36 pm
by Graham
Anubis wrote:bump.... does anybody else experience this?
Yes - I raised a similar issue previously. It was suggested that I map just the music folder of the external drive to MM - and then sync. Not tried it yet, but should work in theory. Would be better if you could specify a start point for the sync in MM though.

Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 4:03 am
by jiri
In the next release the Generic device plug-in will delete only music files (if the option is checked) and not all files. However, the option to delete only in a specific folder isn't implemented yet.

Jiri

Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 7:14 am
by Anubis
jiri wrote:In the next release the Generic device plug-in will delete only music files (if the option is checked) and not all files.
Thank you. I can confirm that this fix works for me.

Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 9:12 am
by Pablo
This is a great enhancement. My portable player has system files that can't be deleted so this will make synchronization much smoother.

Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 3:31 pm
by Anubis
Pablo wrote:This is a great enhancement.
I wouldn't call it an enhancement, as I'm pretty sure this is how 2.2 worked. I'd call it a bug fix...