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dmitch77:

--- Quote from: blgentry on October 22, 2019, 08:13:41 am ---You could catch all of those at once though:  Do a search (or smartlist entry) specifically looking for that folder.  That should find all of them.  When you find them, you should be able to erase the Image File field.  Then they will show up in  your smartlist.

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Yep, that was the secret sauce. It's so nice to have a fully searchable database.  :)

However the only way I was able to change the erroneous imagefile path was to assign new artwork to the relevant tracks (which was easy, once I was able to find and enumerate them). The "Manage Library Field" pane in options (see attached screen shot) shows "Image File" as being not editable, and with an unknown data type. And, Image File doesn't show up in Library Tools > Find & Replace. So, I could not find any way to manually erase, edit, or otherwise modify that bogus field...except by assigning new artwork. Is there another way to modify or delete this field if it happens to get munged in the future?

Thanks.

Doug

blgentry:
I was trying to suggest that you go into the Tagging Window for those files with Edit > Tag.  Then find the [Image File] field and erase the contents of that for just those files.

The Manage Library Fields dialog edits the actual database tags.  If you can been able to remove Image File, it would have removed it from all of the database records!  Luckily you can't do that.  Luckily #2, MC makes database backups, so you could have gone back to a known good state pretty easily.

Getting back to what I was suggesting:  Using the Tag window.  Well... it doesn't work for [Image File]!  It's not user editable.  However you should be able to do something similar to erase the [Image File] from a bunch of files at once:  Highlight them and then  tools > Cover art > remove cover art .  That should erase the entry from all of those records making [Image File] empty.

But you really did the right thing:  You assigned cover art to these files that were "missing" their art.  Which is the whole point of this exercise.  Good job.  :)

Brian.

dmitch77:

--- Quote from: blgentry on October 22, 2019, 12:44:56 pm ---The Manage Library Fields dialog edits the actual database tags.  If you can been able to remove Image File, it would have removed it from all of the database records!  Luckily you can't do that. 

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I know just about enough be to be dangerous, but I knew not to do that. I only looked at, and took a screen shot of, that Manage Library Fields pane to illustrate the fact that that field is not editable.

Ya learn something new every day, if you're lucky. Today, I was lucky.  :)

Doug

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