{"id":699,"date":"2020-10-20T17:37:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T21:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/?post_type=knowledgebase&#038;p=699"},"modified":"2024-12-04T17:28:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T21:28:48","slug":"files-resync-unnecessarily","status":"publish","type":"knowledgebase","link":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/knowledge-base\/mediamonkey-device-sync\/files-resync-unnecessarily\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Files Re-sync Unnecessarily"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MediaMonkey for Windows&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/wiki\/WebHelp:Exporting_Tracks#Auto-Sync\">Auto-Sync<\/a> functionality normally syncs only one copy of a file to a device. Tracks may be unnecessarily re-synced if:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The timestamp of the file in MediaMonkey for Windows is more recent than that on the device. This can occur if:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The files have a future-dated timestamp.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The file server, PC running MediaMonkey for Windows, and the device being synced to have clocks set at different times. Setting them to matching times will resolve this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The destination sync format is changed after syncing a set of files, causing the next auto-sync operation to have duplicates. The solution is to enable &#8216;Delete other files and playlists from the device&#8217;.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A non-standard destination sync format based on Playlist names is used. e.g. if a track appears in multiple playlists, a destination with the &lt;Playlist> in the path will have multiple copies of a track. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Manually syncing files can create duplicates of files that have previously been synced.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If a device has multiple storage locations (e.g. internal storage + SD Card), the sync profiles for each location are configured independently, so for example, it&#8217;s possible to accidentally choose the same Artist in both profiles, resulting in duplicates.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MediaMonkey for Windows&#8217;s Auto-Sync functionality normally syncs only one copy of a file to a device. Tracks may be unnecessarily re-synced if:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","knowledgebase_cat":[110],"knowledgebase_tag":[104,119,102,103],"class_list":["post-699","knowledgebase","type-knowledgebase","status-publish","hentry","knowledgebase_cat-mediamonkey-device-sync","knowledgebase_tag-mma","knowledgebase_tag-mma-mmw-sync","knowledgebase_tag-mmw4","knowledgebase_tag-mmw5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/knowledgebase"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163533,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/699\/revisions\/163533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"knowledgebase_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase_cat?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"knowledgebase_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase_tag?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}