Your approach do not work if you have hundreds of playlists that you will loose if you delete Dead Links eg. tracks with [*] in path.

I found a quick solution for those that moved a main folder (my HD duplicated everything). Just view all tracks (enable Entire Library if you have many, or just work with the list you want to remove from), and sort by 'column Path'. Thats pretty much it. All your dead links should be in the same group aka my D drive was changed to [Media] and I just deleted everything in that group (which was all together now form that sort). Start with them sorted at top, hold shift, and keep clicking page down until you get to the non grey.

The other post explained why the Library setting "Automatically Remove Files" doesnt work if the HD/filepath is changed outside MM. And the Files to Edit>Dead Links, doesnt work as well for this scenario (these links dont show up for some reason). Neither of those would work for me as well, I second that those should work for this...

yes,
select dead links and use file -> locate moved/missing tracks to repair to new one.

Since you are removing the files, will this clear your playlists? My music is on an ubuntu server and i recently changed its path name, an example of my original was [Public]\music\artist\album\song, and it is now M:\music\artist\album\song. The weird thing is that even though media monkey has greyed out my entire library from the original source, it will still play the song when i double click on it, my problem is that all of my playlists have the songs that are greyed out and it will not move any of those songs onto an ipod. I need to remove the greyed out songs, and keep the white ones, all the while replacing the greyed out songs in my playlists with the corresponding new linked songs. Is this possible? Thank you for any help if anyone is still watching this thread.

Problem solved!

I moved MM to a new computer but transferred and kept the old AppDate file. Also, moved the music to a secondary HD with a drive letter other than C:. This gave me the same duplicate file problem.

To remove the duplicates:
1 Click on/Select "Music" on the far left column.
2 From the Edit menu click "select all"
3 Press the delete key on your keyboard. You will then be given two options. The next part is very important.
4 ***Make sure that you select "Delete files from Media Monkey Only" AND NOT "Delete files from Media Monkey and Computer" ***
5 Re-Scan your source folder for music. Mine is set to automatically do this on startup. So I just shut down and restarted.
6 Wait until MM scans your music in.
7 Enjoy what it still the best music player out there. Long live the Pheonix that has arisen from the ashes of MusicMatch!

They should be removed from connected drives when running a scan on the folder or one of it's parent folders or when Folder Monitoring is enabled on the folder or one of it's parent folders.

Lowlander wrote:Tools > Options > Library and enable Remove unavailable items.

This is already enabled by default..

It doesn't automatically remove the dead links...

The program does not know I have dead links until I try to play the file

Tools > Options > Library and enable Remove unavailable items.

Sorry you are having so much trouble.

"Dead Links" isn't under edit in the program menu at the top,
it's in the Entire Library collection under "files to edit" node.

"files to edit" node should be in any collection (if checked or shared in the tree options).

Lowlander wrote:Files to Edit > Dead Links in the affected Collection in the Media Tree. You can remove all listed files.

there is no dead links menu item under the EDIT menu

Why not removed dead files automatically if the folder was changed

Micromanage all these files is a PAin in the A..

Also located missing files option does not fix the issue with duplicates of missing links still showing up
I have tried it and found this to be the case.

It is issues like that stop me from using MM as my default player..

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Also dead links files don't become grey out till I try to play it..

There's needs to be a better option/fix to get rid of all dead links/duplicates dead links

There should be an option / menu item
-clean database of missing or dead files
MM would do a full scan, and remove all dead/missing/duplicate links..

-there should be an option to set this to a schedule
so it can autoclean upon startup, or by x hours

Look at XBMC to see what I mean

If you have actual duplicate files on the PC you'll need to do duplicate management: http://www.mediamonkey.com/support/inde ... ate-tracks

You can try File > Locate Moved/Missing files by selecting all problem files/folders first.

I have two sometimes three duplicate files. the same song and the hard drive usage indicates there actually are files duplicated

enraged wrote:Of course I changed the location of the Music folder outside of MM. It's a Windows folder, not a MM folder.

If it's in the library and you change it outside of MM, that can happen (which you sound like you know).
But If by "Windows folder...not an MM folder" you mean, it's in no way associated with MM, i.e not in the library, that is very odd and should not be
showing up that way inside of MM. In this case, the only way it would show in MM is if your accessing it through My Computer in MM.

....help me out here, as I am sure I'm missing something.