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[glynor]

I have a bunch of Podcasts that I'm syncing to a folder on my hard drive that is set up as a handheld in MC.  It seems to be creating duplicates with reckless abandon.

I'm working on it now, and investigating further, but... Is anyone else seeing this?

[glynor]

Perfect example...

I just deleted the entire contents of my handheld directory that I use to sync my Podcasts over.  So I cleared it completely.  I then pulled up the handheld in MC and clicked Sync and it synced over the podcasts that I had chosen in the Handheld's Sync List.  All is good.  I then navigated away from the Handheld in MC, and then navigated directly back to it.  It immediately listed one file as In Queue.

This file, as you can see from the screenshot below, was already synced.  It's right there (the duplicates are highlighted in Red).  Also, in the list, you can see there are two duplicates already there from the first sync (highlighted in blue).  I checked, and the are NOT two files in the actual Podcast listing in MC (though this happens seemingly all on it's own too).  It did indeed copy two copies of that file over (one suffixed with a (1) in the filename).  The files are identical in file size and in every other way I can figure...



I should add.... The settings for my "handheld" are this:



I navigated away and then back to the handheld, and now it is going to sync a bunch of new files.  This time, it did detect (I guess) that the files are already there because it has them listed as "Delete on Sync". 

[glynor]

Here's the link to the Net@Night podcast shown above, which is one of the ones that is creating all kinds of duplicates.  It certainly seems like some podcasts do it, and some don't.

http://leoville.tv/podcasts/itn.xml

Here is a screenshot of the current listing of the Podcast in MC13.  I have no idea how it got this way, but I have a BUNCH that come and go like this.  I'll go through and delete them manually, and it fixes them for a short while, but then it comes back.  It does seem to be specific to certain podcasts and not others (but LOTS of them).

[JimH]

Nothing has changed in the podcast section of MC.

Autoimport?  Too much wine?

[glynor]

Autoimport?  Too much wine?

I wish... I'm at work.  (I'm bored as hell videotaping a seminar which is why I can post stuff here and spend time playing with MC.)

I don't know how long this has been going on.  It may have been for a while.  I've seen lots of duplicates issues in the past, but ignored them mostly.  I notice it a lot more now with the phone because the duplicate downloads all end up syncing to the phone and then I see three or four (or 8 as one of my files was yesterday) of the same file on the phone.

I did try deleting that above-listed Podcast completely, deleted the directory where the files were stored (why doesn't deleting the podcast delete the files?) and then re-adding it.  It still showed all the duplicates.  Most of them are detected as so, and not downloaded multiple times.  But sometimes they aren't, and you end up with files named (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6) and so on.

[glynor]

This podcast does it too: http://techreport.com/podcast_mp3.rss

That is the one that generated 8 duplicates on my iPhone yesterday.

[mabes]

I noticed the same problem yesterday (in MC12 though), a number of podcasts had dupes on my player, and syncing was behaving a little weird, files not being added that should have. Samsung player. So I just deleted everything from the player and synced all again and it's all fine.

BTW some of my album covers were wrong too. They're all fine now. It seems like after a certain number of syncs things get a little wacky