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Playlist problem
AudibleImagery:
--- Quote from: JimH on March 20, 2024, 05:00:08 pm ---Depends what you're deleting.
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How does it depend?
AudibleImagery:
It happened again and deleted five days of work this time. The only backup that will restore all of my playlists and library views is from five days ago. Can somebody please help me fix this serious issue???
zybex:
Perhaps you are inadvertently deleting them yourself. A Playlist or Group of playlists can be deleted by pressing DEL, and the confirmation dialog can be disabled. Can you check if the confirmation is enabled? Just create a new empty playlist then press DEL to delete it; if MC deletes without asking then you have disabled it at some point. You can reenable the confirmation dialog in Settings > General > Advanced : Reset all confirmation messages.
Are you using some Remote control? Perhaps you customized the keypresses for some actions in MCs XML file, and one of them is actually sending a DEL key without you knowing? Or a wrong MCC command? Or your cat walking on your keyboard? :)
With the confirmation enabled you will at least rule out this scenario. Without confirmation, it's possible that you are pressing DEL to delete a file and instead it deletes an entire Playlist Group.
EnglishTiger:
--- Quote from: zybex on March 26, 2024, 03:07:48 am ---It's possible that you are pressing DEL to delete a file and instead it deletes an entire Playlist Group.
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And one place where that will happen is if you select one of the categories in the upper pane of a Panes View and then tell MC to delete it - that doesn't just delete the "Entry" it also deletes everything that is using that "Entry"
AudibleImagery:
--- Quote from: zybex on March 26, 2024, 03:07:48 am ---Perhaps you are inadvertently deleting them yourself. A Playlist or Group of playlists can be deleted by pressing DEL, and the confirmation dialog can be disabled. Can you check if the confirmation is enabled? Just create a new empty playlist then press DEL to delete it; if MC deletes without asking then you have disabled it at some point. You can reenable the confirmation dialog in Settings > General > Advanced : Reset all confirmation messages.
Are you using some Remote control? Perhaps you customized the keypresses for some actions in MCs XML file, and one of them is actually sending a DEL key without you knowing? Or a wrong MCC command? Or your cat walking on your keyboard? :)
With the confirmation enabled you will at least rule out this scenario. Without confirmation, it's possible that you are pressing DEL to delete a file and instead it deletes an entire Playlist Group.
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I just checked and I have the confirmation dialogue enabled for deleting playlists.
The only remote I use is JRemote but I haven’t used it in a week. I don’t think I edited keypresses in MC’s XML file but how would I check? How do I check if there’s a wrong MCC command?
Generally speaking, I select “Delete” from a dropdown rather than pressing DEL. In the last instance in which my playlists got deleted, I finished making some changes to my library and then backed it up at 9pm on 3/24. I didn’t use my computer at all on 3/25 until I got home. I restarted my computer for a OS update with MC still open and when my computer rebooted and MC loaded the playlists were deleted and I had to backup a playlist from 3/20 in order to restore all of my playlists—none of my other backups after 3/20 had all of my playlists intact.
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