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Thousand duplicates with same path and folder name
LETRA:
--- Quote from: HaWi on December 10, 2019, 06:23:23 am ---Could there be special characters in one version of the names that are not visibly different? I have seen something like that in my library.
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It is weirder. How far I have seen are exactly the same. But, for example, click on "locate on disk", on the duplicate entry, blocks jriver and the finder doesn't open.
--- Quote from: blgentry on December 10, 2019, 07:57:56 am ---We keep seeing this kind of duplication when CUE files are used. Do you have CUE files in these album folders?
Brian.
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I don't use cue files. 96% flac, 4% mp3. The problem occurred when I migrated from external disk to a Drobo 5C. I copied the external disks in the Drobo without jriver and then used "rename, copy, move files" to reallocate the library. In the first two thousand albums (of a total of twenty-five thousand) jriver has doubled the entries in the library.
RoderickGI:
I don't see any Special Characters in your image, but your issue sounds a lot like the original duplicates problem in this thread: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,123158.0.html
It's long and detailed, and may not exactly match your situation. Sorry. But as you copied from a Mac drive to a new drive external to MC, and then did a RM&CF to point MC to the new location, it sounds very similar. "Locate > On Disk (external)" not working is further compelling evidence.
There is a lot of stuff in that thread. Disk format, Code Pages, Character Sets, Compound Characters. Something in there is making the two apparently identical paths different.
LETRA:
--- Quote from: RoderickGI on December 11, 2019, 07:23:04 pm ---I don't see any Special Characters in your image, but your issue sounds a lot like the original duplicates problem in this thread: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,123158.0.html
It's long and detailed, and may not exactly match your situation. Sorry. But as you copied from a Mac drive to a new drive external to MC, and then did a RM&CF to point MC to the new location, it sounds very similar. "Locate > On Disk (external)" not working is further compelling evidence.
There is a lot of stuff in that thread. Disk format, Code Pages, Character Sets, Compound Characters. Something in there is making the two apparently identical paths different.
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The format for external drives is the same, mac OS Plus. There may be other possibilities, although the problem is in alphabetical order, that is, it affects all the artists of the first letters of the alphabet. I have an idea that is to change the name to Drobo and force JRiver to map all the entries in the library again. It is an easy solution that I can try. Do you think that could work? What would be the correct steps?
RoderickGI:
I helped tangolovers fix her problem by using the RM&CF to rename the path and filenames of the problem files. I don't think just changing the disk name to "Drobo" from ""Drobo 5C" will be enough, if that is what you mean.
Here is a simple test for your problem.
Pick a pair of duplicate files.
Select the one that plays in MC, and works using the "Locate > On Disk (external)" function.
Use the Rename function (F2) to make the [filename] field editable. Check for any gaps or anomalies in the name, as per that thread I linked to. Maybe take an image of what the field looks like when in edit mode.
Select the file that won't play, and doesn't work using the "Locate > On Disk (external)" function.
Use the Rename function (F2) to make the [filename] field editable. Check for any gaps or anomalies in the name, as per that thread I linked to. Maybe take an image of what the field looks like when in edit mode.
Compare the two images or just confirm that the two are still identical when in edit mode.
If you see a difference, that is the problem. The MC Library has an old record that includes either a compound character or not, and MC has imported the file which has the reverse characteristics regarding compound characters.
LETRA:
--- Quote from: RoderickGI on December 11, 2019, 07:50:59 pm ---I helped tangolovers fix her problem by using the RM&CF to rename the path and filenames of the problem files. I don't think just changing the disk name to "Drobo" from ""Drobo 5C" will be enough, if that is what you mean.
Here is a simple test for your problem.
Pick a pair of duplicate files.
Select the one that plays in MC, and works using the "Locate > On Disk (external)" function.
Use the Rename function (F2) to make the [filename] field editable. Check for any gaps or anomalies in the name, as per that thread I linked to. Maybe take an image of what the field looks like when in edit mode.
Select the file that won't play, and doesn't work using the "Locate > On Disk (external)" function.
Use the Rename function (F2) to make the [filename] field editable. Check for any gaps or anomalies in the name, as per that thread I linked to. Maybe take an image of what the field looks like when in edit mode.
Compare the two images or just confirm that the two are still identical when in edit mode.
If you see a difference, that is the problem. The MC Library has an old record that includes either a compound character or not, and MC has imported the file which has the reverse characteristics regarding compound characters.
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Tomorrow I follow all the steps and inform you. Thanks for your help.
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