And I'll point out that I use Organize Files frequently on my main library, and using it to 'move' files does actually move them, it all works the same as it always has, very reliable. This only seems to come up with flash drives, and this was the first time I tried it since upgrading to MMW2024, but I've done it several times now with two different flash drives.
I have screenshots with notes, and a debug log of the bug occurring (the pictures and log are from different attempts, so the filenames won't match) uploaded here:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7hg273n1 ... 44ftj&dl=0
Steps I took:
- So, first I put in a drive (G:\) and synced music to it.
- Picture 1, the Organize Files dialog, to show I have it correctly set up to move files the way I want. The first time I tried it I had selected all files (like I usually did) and clicked 'OK.' It started going, taking way longer than I expected, so I walked away.
- When I came back I found a 'disk full' error about a third of the way through the entire list, and discovered the originals were all still there.
- I erased the newly copied files so I could start over, selected a subset of files that would fit in the remaining free space on the drive, and ran Organize Files again.
- Picture 2, after moving them, MM reports that there are still 29.8GB free on the drive, while Windows (inset) reports only 384MB left on the disk. Interestingly, the bar at the bottom of MM does show the drive as full, but can't tell that the entire drive is music that MM has put there.
- The new files were also not added to the library, and the old ones were still in the library - even though their entries should be pointing to the new location now.
- Picture 3, I ran a manual scan, and it added those new files. This might have been a mistake, because later when I removed the drive all of those tracks still showed up in my general library as offline and I had to manually remove everything from drive G:\.
- Picture 4, when looking at the flash drive's library, if I go through the By Folder tree node, I can see all the files piled into the \Music\ folder.
- Picture 5, going through the flash drive's All Music tree node, only the original files show up - nothing from the base \Music\ folder appears.
- Picture 6, when looking at the All Music node for the entire library, both the organized and jumbled files show up.
- Shortly after starting to copy the second set of ~30GB files, MM crashed - the whole window turned white and stopped responding. After waiting a while I force-closed MM and reloaded it.
- Picture 7, MM was under the impression that all 30GB had copied. It reported the drive as completely full (I took a screenshot of the wrong tab, so it doesn't show the actual numbers, but they agreed with the bar at the bottom this time) even though Windows showed there was still 30GB of space. The bar at the bottom does at least recognize that it's all music.
- For completeness, with the last set of files to move, I changed the Organize Files settings to 'copy' to see what would happen. I didn't do any proper measurements, but it subjectively felt like it somehow took two or three times longer than the 'move' operation, even though they are currently doing the same thing.