J River duplicate music files, where are they?

Hi John,

This happened to me once. Assuming your problem has the same cause, the duplicates exist only in the current library, not anywhere on disk.

Here's how it happened to me. I inserted a USB flash drive in another USB port prior to starting my external HDD. As a consequence the flash drive was assigned the drive letter normally assigned to my HDD and my HDD was assigned a new drive letter when I started it. JRMC then saw the HDD with the new drive letter as a new library and imported all my music files (information only) as duplicates into the library with the new HDD drive letter in the file location.

The solution was to close JRMC, remove the flash drive, restore the original drive letter to the HDD, restart JRMC, clear the library (containing the duplicates, and then restore the library from a back-up. The back-up used the original HDD drive letter in the file location, pointed JRMC to the files on the HDD with the now correct drive letter and everything was back to normal.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Bernie

IF the E: files are duplicates of the D: files in the library, you can try selecting the E: files and deleting them from the library. One option when you delete is to just delete the entry from the library without deleting the file from disk. That should remove the E: files from the library without touching the D: files. Before doing anything, back up your library. Then try this on one file and see if it works. Then do a few more. If that works, then you can do all of them.

Thanks for the input. I'am going to delve deeper with the above suggestions and see what I find out. I'll see if I can tag the E: files for deletion trying one first. I gotta find them though.
And yes I have a second external hard drive with a backup.
I did that part right. :')
-John

If you want to see what's on your drives/partitions, the easiest way is to use a more powerful file manager than the one that comes with Windows. There's plenty of free ones you can download.

JSD52756: If you are still having difficulty locating any duplicated music files, the files are most likely NOT duplicated on disk. It is most likely a duplication in the "JRMC library". So it is unlikely you will be able to find duplicated music files anywhere on disk. That is why I suggested clearing the "library" in JRMC (after having reassigned the correct drive letter to your external drive - if that was indeed the cause of the problem) and then restoring the "JRMC library" from a backup copy of the JRMC library. No music file manipulation involved.

Good luck,

Bernie