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bugeyed:
I am talking about the columns like album name, artist, track, genre etc.
Every time I open MC23 MAC the columns are back to the original config. I can save my preset, select it, close MC23 & when I reopen it, the same album has the old column config. The "Auto size columns" needs to be selected each time as well & I have it checked in "Tree & View". What am I missing?
Kev

bugeyed:

--- Quote from: bugeyed on April 10, 2018, 04:42:36 pm ---I am talking about the columns like album name, artist, track, genre etc.
Every time I open MC23 MAC the columns are back to the original config. I can save my preset, select it, close MC23 & when I reopen it, the same album has the old column config. The "Auto size columns" needs to be selected each time as well & I have it checked in "Tree & View". What am I missing?
Kev

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Can someone please address this question. I can't find out if this is even possible. All I want to do is make my column preferences the default instead of having to select "My Preset" every time I use MC23. I don't find any reference to this in the Wiki & whenever I post the question I get ZERO answers!
Frustrated,
Kev

marko:
Apologies for your frustration.
I saw your question when you first posted it, and was honestly, a bit blank over it, so left it for someone else to answer. The forum moves that fast, it dropped off the recent posts page very quickly, and, again, with brutal honesty... I forgot all about you :)

A bump such as you have done is a good idea in these cases.
So, to your question... I may still not be much help here, but it may provoke some more helpful responses. For the record, I don't use a MAC, so if any of this stuff is different on a MAC, someone who knows really needs to jump in...


--- Quote from: bugeyed on April 10, 2018, 04:42:36 pm ---I am talking about the columns like album name, artist, track, genre etc.

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Got it. Could you expand a little (screenshot is the best) on where you see this problem? Is it everywhere? Library views? Panes or categories view? Playlists views?


--- Quote from: bugeyed on April 10, 2018, 04:42:36 pm ---Every time I open MC23 MAC the columns are back to the original config. I can save my preset, select it, close MC23 & when I reopen it, the same album has the old column config.

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This doesn't sound right, and is probably why you've received no response so far. Normally, once you set your columns, either manually or by applying a saved preset, they stick. My gut feeling is that whatever is causing this issue for you has to be something at your end, rather than an issue with MC itself, otherwise, there would be a lot more noise on the forum about it. eureka moment? Are you using an MC client connecting to an MC server? If so, then this is exactly the behaviour I would expect. To make your change persistant, you would need to make it on the server instance of MC, and this would then be pushed out to all connecting clients, everytime they connect. If you're not in a server/client situation, then we're back to "This doesn't sound right..."

The "Eureka moment" came as I thought about where MC saves these things, and I'm almost certain that they're a part of the library, and you must have write access to your library folder otherwise you would be seeing a whole world of other issues. If you're not client/server, I'm pretty much out of ideas here.


--- Quote from: bugeyed on April 10, 2018, 04:42:36 pm ---The "Auto size columns" needs to be selected each time as well & I have it checked in "Tree & View". What am I missing?

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Client/server setup? See, I'm pinning all my hopes on this being the case here :D
Also have a look at "Tree & View > Advanced > allow auto size to cut off long values"
I believe it's checked by default, maybe, you don't want that?

-marko.

bugeyed:
Thanks for noticing this bump. I am having problems inserting images. Can you specify the preferred method? I have the screen shots in a drop box, but everything I have tried does not display in the preview, so I must be missing something. They are png files, is that alright?
Thanks,
Kev

marko:
I assume from this that you are not using MC in a client/server environment?

There's not really a preferred method, just what works for you, and there are many and varied options available... Here are a couple:
If you use the full blown reply option, rather than the 'quick reply' box at the foot of the thread, you will see, near the bottom, left, "Attachments and other options"...

Click on that to expand it, then attach the png files to your post.

Alternatively, dropbox should allow you to create sharing links to the files which could also be posted for us to click on. These would open in dropbox, but would still get the job done.
I don't think dropbox allows direct insertion via BBCode "IMG" tags.

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