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WMC library questions. Removing duplication? Malcolm H 01-25-2008
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Posted by Malcolm H on January 25, 2008, 3:35 am
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I am a new user of Windows Media Centre with Vista Home Premium and have
two questions concerning the music library.

1. My extensive mp3 music library is contained in a partition of its own
(Drive J:) but I also have some mp3 files located temporarily in another
partition (Drive E:). Some of the files are duplicated in J: and E: When I
first started to use WMC it (by default) scanned all my drives looking for
media files and therefore found the duplicates. Subsequently I realised that
I did not wish E: to be scanned and therefore I removed it in the WMC
settings menu. However the duplicates still appear in the WMC library
display.

How do I remove the unwanted duplicates from the WMC display?

2. I note that a 'Delete' function in WMC allows music files easily to be
deleted from the library display but am concerned to discover that this
function also deletes the file completely. This seems to be very dangerous
and could easily result if precious files being deleted accidentally.

Is there any way to protect valuable music files from accidental deletion?
(I do, of couse, have a full backup of the music library but still believe
that it is too easy accidentally to delete files)

Thanks for any guidance

Malcolm H





Posted by Jeannette on January 25, 2008, 1:20 pm
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Malcolm H wrote:
> I am a new user of Windows Media Centre with Vista Home Premium and
> have two questions concerning the music library.
>
> 1. My extensive mp3 music library is contained in a partition of its own
> (Drive J:) but I also have some mp3 files located temporarily in another
> partition (Drive E:). Some of the files are duplicated in J: and E:
> When I first started to use WMC it (by default) scanned all my drives
> looking for media files and therefore found the duplicates. Subsequently
> I realised that I did not wish E: to be scanned and therefore I removed
> it in the WMC settings menu. However the duplicates still appear in the
> WMC library display.
>
> How do I remove the unwanted duplicates from the WMC display?
>
> 2. I note that a 'Delete' function in WMC allows music files easily to
> be deleted from the library display but am concerned to discover that
> this function also deletes the file completely. This seems to be very
> dangerous and could easily result if precious files being deleted
> accidentally.
>
> Is there any way to protect valuable music files from accidental
> deletion? (I do, of couse, have a full backup of the music library but
> still believe that it is too easy accidentally to delete files)
>
> Thanks for any guidance
>
> Malcolm H
>
>
>
>

You can get out of WMC and use the Media Player to make easy changes to
the library. You can delete items from the library only.

Jeannette

Posted by Malcolm H on January 25, 2008, 2:49 pm
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>
> You can get out of WMC and use the Media Player to make easy changes to
> the library. You can delete items from the library only.
>
> Jeannette


Thank you Jeanette, that works! Don't you think it would be a good idea to
be able to delete from the library only from within WMC?

Malcolm H


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