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blgentry:
For the mystery files there are normally only a few choices:
1. The files are not where you think they are. That folder with the the space in it might be a clue. I think MC handles spaces OK though, as I have MANY Album names with spaces in their names.
2. Your files are already imported but you don't know it because the metadata is missing or wrong. The way to detect this is to search for the folder name in the search bar and see what comes up. If you find a bunch of files that have no album, no artist, etc, you have probably found the files in question. The exact path will help you determine this.
3. Your files are corrupted or something which makes MC not import them. This is rather unlikely here; just including it for completeness.
Brian.
JimH:
Auto import settings allow you to edit each folder to specify file types to import. It's possible you're not importing the right file types.
macdonjh:
I got it. I ended up moving the [Album] folder to trash, then moving that folder back to my library. Then I used the Library tool MRC to rename the files and associated folder according to my convention (which is the same convention recommended by JRiver).
I think the original problem was somehow created because my Mac didn't handle the umlaut in Queensryche properly, for some reason. What was really weird and frustrating is after I shut down and restarted the [Album] disappeared from my [Artist] folder, even when I looked in the Finder. But, when I searched for various songs or even the [Album] folder using the Finder, all of the files and the folder appeared in the search. When I showed properties, the path was even correct. I have no explanation for that ridiculousness. I was going to move the whole [Album] to trash and then re-rip the CD, but decided to try moving to trash then back to my Library folder first. That worked. For some reason.
macdonjh:
--- Quote from: blgentry on March 21, 2019, 06:37:36 pm ---For the mystery files there are normally only a few choices:
2. Your files are already imported but you don't know it because the metadata is missing or wrong. The way to detect this is to search for the folder name in the search bar and see what comes up. If you find a bunch of files that have no album, no artist, etc, you have probably found the files in question. The exact path will help you determine this.
Brian.
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I had another incident, this time trying to import video files (four TV show episodes, ripped from a DVD using MakeMKV). Two of the episodes imported just fine. The other two disappeared when I ripped them. The files were in the correct directory according to the Finder, but I could not find them with MC25. After stewing about it for a while I started searching in the TREE and discovered the missing files in Documents. I retagged the two files and they popped into the Video directory just like I expected them to.
Now if I only knew why the got tagged as Documents in the first place when I ripped them. At least the fix is simple.
blgentry:
--- Quote from: macdonjh on May 05, 2019, 10:42:13 am ---Now if I only knew why the got tagged as Documents in the first place when I ripped them. At least the fix is simple.
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I've had that happen at least a dozen times. It's random for me; I can't figure out any pattern. Just setting their Media Type to Video and Media Sub Type to the proper value (movie, tv show, etc) fixes it each time.
I haven't had this happen in a while as I'm no longer using MC for video.
At least you know how to fix it, as you said. :)
Brian.
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