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[Mr. Odd]

I just moved MC 26 from Windows to Linux (Ubuntu 19.10), fresh install of everything. I restored my library backup, changed the paths in MC and everything looks and works great. Then I changed a tag on a file in one album and re-ripped another and now when I run auto-import, those two albums (and ONLY those two) create duplicates in MC. Is this a rights issue? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[Mr. Odd]

It seems to add duplicates to everything new since restoring my old library.

[Scobie]

Do the duplicate files have the same file path?

[Mr. Odd]

Yes, exactly the same path.

[Mr. Odd]

Just tried reimporting my library. Now the duplicates are spreading to other folders as well. One thing I noted after this import is that some of the paths have a \ and some have a /, despite my using the / when importing.

My library is stored on a hard drive in /mnt/HD/Music/ - not sure if that makes a difference.

[Mr. Odd]

Does the format of the drive matter? It's currently ext4, would NTFS make a difference?

[Awesome Donkey]

What might matter is the driver used for NTFS or the mount location or even the mount permissions. I use ntfs-3g on my Arch Linux install for my NTFS drives (set up in fstab) with read/write permissions and I've never had this issue. I also mount my drive at specific locations too (also set in fstab). If using GNOME the Disks app can be used as a GUI to manually set up mounting (and the use of the ntfs-3g driver).

[Mr. Odd]

Formatted the drive as NTFS, imported old library, changed permission across all files so they match, and same behavior - duplicates but only for some files. Some files are noted as "can't locate", even after running "update library from tags" despite being right there in the folder. Really strange.