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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.
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> 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
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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
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