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Fixing Paths and Filenames with special characters (Accents, etc.) Mac/PC

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tangolovers:
I tried all of the above.  Delete is grayed out on right-click of Bad Main Library. Pressing the delete key did nothing.  Just sent you a screenshot and you'll see there's not option to delete it.  ? :-[

Here's another screenshot when I hover the cursor... message doesn't seem very insightful.  Also one of right click menu.

RoderickGI:
Okay. Skip deleting the "Bad Main Library" for now, and we will come back to that.

I suspect it can't be deleted because the path is bad, with a backslash on the end.

But then the "Main Library" is also greyed out preventing delete. Hmmm.

Try moving on to step 7, and see if the "Main Library" will load.

tangolovers:
What about trying to load the Bad Main Library and correcting the path (if that's possible)?

Main Library Loaded!

RoderickGI:
Commented on post "Reply 16" above.
Step 3a
If you normally have all your videos on an external hard drive, and it isn't always connected, Make sure that the setting "Fix Broken Links" in the Tasks section of the Auto Import configuration is set to "Yes (protect files on missing drives)" or "No". I prefer the former. The latter is safer but will mean any broken links need to be fixed manually. With all you have going on, it is probably easier to let MC fix some links. Although setting it to "No" may show you more of what is going on in your Library.
I assume that when you say you have pointed it to My Movies, you mean in Auto Import configuration? There was no need to do that if the above setting was correct. Unless you wanted some movies to test with, but even then, not really. You could have just imported a Sigle Folder, being the My Movies folder.
I didn't notice the double "J River Conversion Cache\" folders before. You can set the conversion cache location wherever you want. It is best not to have it under the media files locations though, as MC will try to import those files. That could have been the source of your Duplicates. I guess a suitable location for all media types would be:
"/Users/susiemelo/Library/Application Support/J River/J River Conversion Cache/"

Step 7
Yes. The "Main Library" may be your original and good copy MC Library. At some stage you created a Library callled "MC Library Backup", loaded that, and then you kept using that Library, as you had the setting "Options > Startup > Library > Always load default library" unchecked.
What is listed under the "Playing from ..." section under "Playing Now" is all the Libraries that exist in this installation of MC. You have four, of which only two seem valid.

Step 9
Okay, We will look at that later then.

Lots of freezing is a bit of a worry. It could be that this installation is just broken. Make sure you have those backups, because if none of this works, you might need to completely uninstall MC and reinstall, then Restore one of those backups.

RoderickGI:

--- Quote from: tangolovers on December 01, 2019, 03:43:11 pm ---What about trying to load the Bad Main Library and correcting the path (if that's possible)?
--- End quote ---

No.


--- Quote from: tangolovers on December 01, 2019, 03:43:11 pm ---Main Library Loaded!
--- End quote ---

Excellent. Check if this is your real, original Library, and if you want to keep and switch to using it.

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