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baldo:
I have 3 different machines that have MC.  1 Win PC, 2 Win laptop  3 Mac.  (with 3 different hard drives,  for the FLAC files).  No interest in getting a NAS BTW!

I maintain the library on say 1 WinPC, create a back up, copy that to the other machines and then do a library restore.  This works great for all the machines.

However, recently I notice that MC on 2 and 3 sometimes load an older version of the library rather than the one that I restored.  What is going on here? 

I also notice in Playing Now area I can see two items labeled Main Library both of which are located on the C: Drive\J River\ MEdia Cente\Library  folder.

When I do a back up and restore I do that to my external USB drive where I keep all my MC files.

Why is MC reverting to previous copies of the library and not the latest one that I restored to?

Many thanks

baldo:
BTW, this happens on both on, Win laptop and the Mac.

baldo:
Anyone?  Been a few days and was just wondering why this is happeing.

Many thanks

JimH:
Search for *.zip in your file browser.

You're doing something that isn't supported or recommended.  Read about Library Server on the wiki.  It's the recommended method for what you want.

baldo:
Thanks JimH.

This is now happening on my Mac as well as on my Laptop (although I think the laptop has stopped doing this)

I just want to now where the library that is being loaded is stored so that I can make sure that that is the one I want it to load up.

There are just two possible places, the hard drive that MC is installed on (which should be the normal drive for all software and systems files) or the USB drive that I keep all my audio files on.

I am not doing anything that is not supported by MC. I have paid for the 3 licences that I have my MC on.  Really don't see why it is doing this.

Many thanks.

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