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speeddeacon:
For some strange reason, every time I add a new album to my hard drive, MC19 adds every song to the MC library twice.  There is only one album, but each song is there twice so I have to go delete the duplicate songs.  Anyone know what might be wrong and how I can fix it?

OSX 10.8.5
MC19 .0.1

Arindelle:
are the duplicates showing the same path? are they true duplicates? (eg. not an Mp3 and a Flac file?)

That happened to me after mapping a drive to z, but forgot to change autoimport settings from the local drive letter. If this is the case go to a file view and remove the local drive files (CAREFUL just from the Library don't delete the files from the disc). For new media I continue to dump files to the local drive path, but use autoimport only from the network mapped drive.

If this has nothing to do with it, I'd still look carefully at your autoimport configuration or reconfigure it from scratch.

speeddeacon:
I'll look into the path.  I've deleted all the redundant files so will need to add another file to check.  I will also look into the auto-import settings.  I haven't messed with it in a long time so forget what the settings even are. Perhaps in the transition to MC18 to 19 or one of the updates to MC19 has altered them.  Thanks for the advice.

Arindelle:
sure thing hope it works for you. Get back if not, should be a simple fix

speeddeacon:
Ok, I've been able to drill down a little more info and it is not a MC19 importing issue.  I did like you said and discovered that the paths are not identical, that they are actually being duplicated in the transfer to my hard drive, but in a different path  structure.  It is very, very weird to me, but I'm sure there is a logical explanation to those of you who are in the computer industry.  First let me give some info as to how my system is set up.  I have a dedicated Mac Mini music server and an external USB hard drive.  All of the music files are contained on this hard drive and that is the drive that MC19 auto imports from.  I rip my files on an iMac and then send them via my network, or directly with a USB flash card, to the Mac Mini, using copy command.  What I discovered is that when they are copied to the external hard drive, they are getting copied twice with different file paths. 

For example:
/Volumes/Multimedia/Digital Music Folder/Candlelight Red/Reclamation/01 Candlelight Red - Reflecting.aiff, which shows up in a folder named the artist, in this case Candlelight Red. 

The other file will be named the album, in this case Reclamation and the file name will be:
/Volumes/Multimedia/Digital Music Folder/Reclamation/01 Candlelight Red - Reflecting.aiff, which shows up in a folder named the album.

The thing is, I only copy the file one time.  Something is happening either during the copy process, or on the hard drive and I have no idea what or why.  The native file that is being copied is the first one with the Artist in the file path, not the album. Any ideas?

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