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wdesbrow:
Greetings. 
I have a sudden problem with duplicate tracks appearing in almost all of the albums (1100?) in my MC Library.

I am still a tech beginner, but have been using Windows 10 MC23 for 2-3 years without a glitch until... I recently had a hard drive failure and in BOTH a new laptop and an existing desktop Windows machine my WDMyCLOUD EX2 NAS drive WAS visible, but  could not  access its shares -- including the MUSIC share, contained in which is a large MC library.  My computer tech located the shares and mapped two of the shares (I think the term is correct...) to the left margin nav on my Windows FILE EXPLORER page.   (So when I click on each one I go directly to that share.)  But when I started using MC again, I am finding duplicates of all tracks within most if not all, albums.

Needless to say, I need to get to the root cause of the problem (Don't know if these things are related) and correct it, then... delete all of the duplicates, hopefully in a group action.  The shortcut is labeled When I drilled down into the file listing in the library both the original and duplicates look ALIKE EXCEPT for the first few letters.  EXAMPLE --

\\WDMYCLOUDEX2\Music (NAME OF SHARE)  etc etc etc   (ORIGINAL LISTING)

Y:\(Album Name)\(Artist)\ (TRACK TITLE)\   etc etc etc

Please Help.  THANKS!

JimH:
You're probably importing from both locations. 

Check your auto-import settings and correct them.

Search for either location and soft delete those files in MC.  Read carefully.  Try a few before you do very many.

wdesbrow:
THANKS for the quick response.  I found that it is true -- the wDMYCLOUD EX and the y: areas are BOTH included in the auto import.  Am I correct in understanding:
1.  To fix the problem moving forward I simply need to remove the :y reference from the auto-import list?
2.  But to delete the current duplicates all at once - What do you mean by a "soft delete" from the MC files?  Specifically how do I do that?  (I understand that I need to do a few files initially to make sure I am doing it correctly!)

THANKS All, in advance.

P.S.  If I deleted the :Y reference in auto-import and at some point did a manual scan MC simply replace all the current files with ONLY the files in WDMYCLOUD EX? (in effect erasing the :y files)?

wdesbrow:
Can anyone help me with the above follow-on question re: duplicate files and using "soft delete" to delete them?

Thanks, All

JimH:
Select a file, press delete and read the options.

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