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Title: Deleting songs from main library
Post by: hkurtz5 on June 21, 2018, 03:18:10 pm
I'm wondering why I cannot delete duplicate songs in the main library permanently? I remember seeing some message that stated the library was opened only in a read-only state.  I want to be able to remove duplicate permanently.  How do you do this.  This is the main reason why I have not purchased a license yet because this is unacceptable to me.  Please let me know how this operation is done.

Thank you
Title: Re: Deleting songs from main library
Post by: BryanC on June 23, 2018, 10:17:31 am
It sounds like you may have more than one instance of MC running at the same time. The first instance will get R/W priority and the second will be R/O.
Title: Re: Deleting songs from main library
Post by: hkurtz5 on June 23, 2018, 05:05:25 pm
Not that I am aware of there is only one instance running on my Linux OS min 18.3.  I do not understand why I cannot clean-up my database and it just reverts to duplicates.  I will not buy a product that has flaws this apparent.  Explain, if I am mistaken, but I've been fighting with this since I've downloaded the software.  I understand it's my fault originally to have copies of albums on different areas of my computer, but this should an issue that can be solved through remediation.
Title: Re: Deleting songs from main library
Post by: scorpio81 on June 25, 2018, 12:50:08 am
Check auto-import and disable it if enabled. If you still need auto-import then configure import so that files previously removed from media library are ignored. See if this helps.
Title: Re: Deleting songs from main library
Post by: bob on June 25, 2018, 03:15:40 pm
Check auto-import and disable it if enabled. If you still need auto-import then configure import so that files previously removed from media library are ignored. See if this helps.
Also if you have multiple locations in the auto-import that are symlinks they will be seen as physically separate locations (which is the point of a symlink).