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[Araj]

(Testing 11.1.91)

Somehow when I re-imported media so that a few new files would be in the Library DB, all the files that were already in the DB appeared a second time. How do I get rid of the double listings?

Is it possible that the duplicate files on my iRiver MP3 player which I synced before now show in the DB? If so, how do I stop that?

In addition, if I try importing now, sometimes files show as Recently Imported although they were already imported and listed before.

Any fixes please ?

[Alex B]

Check first the Filename field (You can make it visible in View > Customize Current View).

Does a duplicate file have a different filename? How is it different?

[Araj]

Hi Alex

The files are not different - they're exactly the same file name and path. I looked in a bit more detail now and it's not all the files are double. About 75% are double, the rest are single or triple entries.

I tried Import Media again now and it happily imported 398 "new" media files which were already there. There doesn't seem to be a pattern - some of the imports are whole albums, some only one track or two...

Thanks for your help

[Araj]

Hey, just found it - Somehow when I deinstalled MC11 before installing 11.1.91. the database got left behind, so there were now two databases. I deleted the old one and now everything's hunky dory.

Cheers

[Alex B]

Hmm... Rather strange. I don't think anyone else has reported a similar problem.

I don't understand how MC could have two separate databases open at the same.

Besides, I have always believed that at least the filenames must be unique in an MC Library and thought that otherwise the files could not show up as separate items. Could it be that MC uses an internal identifier for each file, which doesn't show up anywhere, not even in an XML library export?

[gk666999]

I had this problem once.