I've been using MC11 to manage my images for some time now without any issues. Just last night, using Tools>Import Media, to pull in a few additional images, MC started creating seemingly random duplicates of the same file on disk. Nearly each time I import, more of the same images (duplicates) are added to the library. I have roughly 9600 images in the referenced folder, but performing subsequent import operations increments this value randomly (sometimes adding 0 duplicates, sometimes adding 1000+), and now I'm left with over 1700 images within my MC library (when I have no where near that many on disk).
I've attempted to purge the system by moving the images to a new folder (using explorer), then performing an import operation to cleanse MC of all files, moving the images back, and then re-importing. All seems well for the first import, but subsequent imports produce yet again more duplicates. On a related note, the tags of some (again, random) of the files are missing on import until I update the library from the tags. What's going on?
Side note, though I don't believe it to be related - I've recently moved all of my images from my pc hard disk to an external hard disk, and all has worked well for a week or two.
Thanks,
Charles