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[flyfish2002]

I recently bought a NAS and copied my FLAC files from a music dedicated laptop to the NAS.  I then deleted these FLAC files from the laptop, so the laptop has just the OS and MC19 now.  And yes, I already owned a mirrored NAS for back-up purposes which remains and is in use. 

I pointed MC19 to the new library location and I now have two copies of each song showing up in MC19.  Each album folder contains two copies of each song.  When I go to the NAS, there is but one copy of each song within an album folder.

What did I do?

Brent

[MrC]

Look at the Filepath column in the Files view, for any track and its mate.

[flyfish2002]

Thanks.  It lists the same file path three different ways:

W:\  (the drive name)
10.0.0.21 (the IP address)
NAS-17-B2-14 (the host name of the NAS used by the NAS SW)

These are all pointing to the same location. 

Maybe delete this library and start over? 

[MrC]

Those three are *different* paths, to the same file, and hence the problem.

Configure Auto-Import to only use one of these paths.  Use either a Windows drive path (local or mapped network), or a UNC path (e.g. \\server\path\to\files).  Tools > Import > Configure Auto-Import...

Then, sort by Filename and select all the path entries you don't want and hit Delete (using the first option in the dialog).

[flyfish2002]

Thanks.  Did all the above and I am all set.  The library, images and Auto-Import all are directed to the same path. 

Doesn't matter I guess how  I did this - it is fixed!