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Re: duplicating every file in library

by DrTung » Sat Jan 02, 2016 4:20 pm

I was experiencing the same issue and it emerged very recently after using MM for a number of years. I did go to Location and discovered that my external drive was indicated twice, albeit with a slightly different path. Needless to say, I have removed the one with the smaller file tally and am happy to say the program is currently removing 29000 files from the Library.

Re: duplicating every file in library

by sp000n » Wed Aug 26, 2015 12:35 pm

Lowlander wrote:MediaMonkey only scans what you tell it to. So somewhere along the way you scanned it. You can remove drives or folders from the Library using the Location node in the Media Tree (right click and Remove).
No. Your statements fly in the face of observed data.

Anyways, I was also able to recreate the way MM duplicated links to the same file. With a large existing library, I added a sorting rule. While sorting, MM became unresponsive overnight and through the next workday ~ 20+ hours. I killed the process and restarted and, viola, duplicate links to single files.

Moving on by clearing the entire database, however, and adding everything from scratch with sorting rules in place from the beginning presented a nice, clean database. From there, the Advanced Duplicate Find & Fix tool that you recommended worked flawlessly.

Thanks!

Re: duplicating every file in library

by Lowlander » Mon Aug 24, 2015 5:42 pm

MediaMonkey only scans what you tell it to. So somewhere along the way you scanned it. You can remove drives or folders from the Library using the Location node in the Media Tree (right click and Remove).

Re: duplicating every file in library

by sp000n » Mon Aug 24, 2015 5:24 pm

So, thanks to your suggestion, I have improved my situation to the following. The dead link is removed AND "Advanced Duplicate Find & Fix" ably detects the other 3 files. Therein lies my remaining problem, however, as there are only two remaining files. Why would the one file be appearing twice? Since it does, it shows both in the tool's Keep and Delete suggestions. The net result is that it removes ALL files from the directory :cry:

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path\filename(3).flac
path\filename.flac
path\filename.flac
EDIT: I see a past problem where a location might be scanning twice to have files double listed but that ought not be my problem The two locations being scanned are:
c:\users\username\Music (empty)
x:\Music (everything)

Re: duplicating every file in library

by sp000n » Mon Aug 24, 2015 4:46 pm

Files to Edit -> Dead Link. Very nice. Thanks, Lowlander.

Re: duplicating every file in library

by sp000n » Mon Aug 24, 2015 4:41 pm

You made me look, I admit it, but the drive isn't set up as its own sync device. It started duplicated when I enabled library sorting upon upgrading to Gold. I'm also not the first. As I said during the problem statement, there have been a few threads with the same problem over the years.

I estimate that it created roughly 28,000 duplicates in my current library.

Re: duplicating every file in library

by Lowlander » Mon Aug 24, 2015 4:32 pm

There isn't, it's a manual process: http://www.mediamonkey.com/support/inde ... ate-tracks

If files show in the Library, but don't exist you can find them in the Files to Edit > Dead Links node in the affected Collection and remove them from there.

MediaMonkey doesn't create duplicate files, the only reason I can see would be setting up sync to the same drive (Tools > Options > Portable Device Sync), but that would be something you did.

Re: duplicating every file in library

by sp000n » Mon Aug 24, 2015 4:28 pm

Lowlander wrote:
sp000n wrote:the option "Analyze files for duplicates (takes extra time)" is enabled
This is an analyze tool that creates a fingerprint of each file. This then can be used with Files to Edit > Duplicate Content in the Media Tree. It doesn't delete anything on its own.
K. Found it. Just so I don't screw this up... where is the command that will actually process it down to one file. Is there even such a thing or is it manual from here? MM has created tens of thousands of duplicates for me :/

Re: duplicating every file in library

by sp000n » Mon Aug 24, 2015 4:23 pm

OIC. Good tip, thanks. I'll give that a try next.

Further strangeness, however. I let MM run its scan to completion (which nearly consumed my HD space). What's going on in this directory of duplicates shown in Artist & Album view?

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path\filename(2).flac
path\filename(3).flac
path\filename.flac
path\filename.flac
Within the ablum directory itself, the (2) copy doesn't even exist (and is greyed out in MM when I try to play it) and, of course, there is only one copy of the filename.flac file. This is so wierd.

Appreciate you guys looking into this with me.

Re: duplicating every file in library

by Lowlander » Mon Aug 24, 2015 4:02 pm

sp000n wrote:the option "Analyze files for duplicates (takes extra time)" is enabled
This is an analyze tool that creates a fingerprint of each file. This then can be used with Files to Edit > Duplicate Content in the Media Tree. It doesn't delete anything on its own.

Re: duplicating every file in library

by sp000n » Mon Aug 24, 2015 3:58 pm

Yes. Any ideas?

Also, the option "Analyze files for duplicates (takes extra time)" is enabled yet the duplicates are created & remain.

Re: duplicating every file in library

by Lowlander » Mon Aug 24, 2015 12:02 pm

Which version of MediaMonkey? Is the drive a local internal drive or some other location?

Re: duplicating every file in library

by MMFrLife » Mon Aug 24, 2015 8:40 am

sp000n wrote:Thanks for the reply.

Well, what I see is MM begin its monitoring check of my folders. A progress bar on the bottom starts reporting "Monitoring yyy of xxx" and they continue to grow. All the while, files and folders are duplicating within the library.
What are your Folder Monitor settings. Scan at startup?

Re: duplicating every file in library

by sp000n » Sun Aug 23, 2015 10:48 pm

Thanks for the reply.

Well, what I see is MM begin its monitoring check of my folders. A progress bar on the bottom starts reporting "Monitoring yyy of xxx" and they continue to grow. All the while, files and folders are duplicating within the library.

Re: duplicating every file in library

by MMFrLife » Sat Aug 22, 2015 5:15 pm

sp000n wrote:Every time I start MediaMonkey Gold, it sets to work duplicating every file in my directory.
What do you mean? You start up MM and it just starts scanning/duplicating in an obvious way?
If so, what does what you're seeing look like?

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