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Old March 11th 07, 06:07 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.music_pictures_video
JoelRub
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Default Vista Media Player 11 Duplicate files

Dale,

I just wanted to let you know there is another way. First you must find the
database file of the Media Library and delete it. This is located under
User/xxx(the user name)/local/Microsoft/Media Player. Then open media player
and go to File/Tools/Options and select the library tab. Click on advance and
set the folder it monitors for music files. I did this and now have no more
duplicates. You can add or remove folders in this area that you want to
monitor.

Joel

"Dale" wrote:

It can be fixed. Just follow the directions I gave. If you only delete the
tracks from the library but not from your disk, then you will only have one
copy in the library. If you add the File Path column and sort by it, you
will see what I mean, I think.

Dale

"JoelRub" wrote in message
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Dale,

You were right on the money. I had a back up on two other drives and it
pulled the songs from all the drives. That's why I had the duplicates. I
will
not be able to fix it.

Thanks,

Joel

"Dale" wrote:

It is likely that you have multiple copies of your files on your hard
drive
or that those files are accessible through multiple reparse points in
your
file system.

The best solution is to open WMP in the Songs view. Right-click on any
column header and select Choose Columns. Add the File Path column to the
view. Click on the File Path column header to sort by file path. Now
you
can see which entries are the desired set and which are duplicates.

Select all of the duplicates by using your favorite multi-select method
and
right-click and delete them. Do NOT tell WMP to delete them from your
computer as well. If the files are duplicated by a reparse point, you
could
end up deleting both the duplicate library pointer to the file and the
original file as well!

If you think their are undesired duplicates on your computer, use Windows
Explorer to delete them but if you're unsure, test by making a copy of a
couple files to a safe location first and delete those couple of files
and
test in WMP.

Dale

"JoelRub" wrote in message
...
I am running Vista Home Premium. When I set up my Media Player Library
it
created duplicate and a few triplicates of each song. When playing an
album
it plays all the sounds including the duplicates. Has anyone seen this
and
have any ideas on a solution. I know I could delete them but that would
take
a very long with so many songs.


Thank,

Joel