Use the manual Auto-Organize Files in that case, it will ask you to move associated files.

Or have the files added to an empty folder instead, so that you can use the background Auto-Organize and no associated files get moved.

Hi,
Then the best would be to set Auto Organize to separate dedicated folder and just simply use File explorer to move file there.

Here is How I set things up:
- Pinned special folder named "To check metadata" which is Monitored on startup and continuously
- Move Files there using File Explorer
- MM Add them and I check them, tag ...
- Select All tracks and Drag and drop to second folder that have Auto-Organize -> Playlist thru One Auto Playlist that contain only criteria PATH so that only those files are organized.

It needs time to setup, but once done it works perfectly.

I've tried with "auto organize" off. It then copies, not moves, the items I am dragging onto MMW.

What I want it to do is to take the files I am dragging onto MMW and only those files and move them into MMW. Remove those from the source location and leave any other files alone. There are no "associated files".

Hi,
If you set Auto-Organize monitor on Music node and folder you drag and drop then it triggers scan of whole folder. This especially true if scan on start is not enabled then it triggers in folder change.

Just to be sure I tried to drag and drop track from Explorer to music from non monitored folder and it just added that track to MM library, if I do that on monitored folder (startup scan disabled) then it trigger for whole folder which is correct due the fact Windows send folder changed flag to MM.

Well, I drag one or more tracks onto MMW (Music node) from Windows Explorer. MMW then proceeds to move THE ENTIRE FOLDER into MMW regardless of what else is in there. This is wrong.

The first one runs automatically in the background on a file that's being added or edited in MediaMonkey. The latter is run manually by the user on a selection of files.

Lowlander wrote: ↑Sun Jul 09, 2023 9:57 pm Auto-Organize does not prompt as it's designed as a background process, Auto-Organize Files does prompt.

Auto organize does not prompt but auto organize does?

I've been using MMW for over five years. I do not know the difference between these two things.

Auto-Organize does not prompt as it's designed as a background process, Auto-Organize Files does prompt.

Delete Emptied is on. There are no "accompanying files" here, just a collection of items that may or may not be related to the one single file being moved into MMW. There was no prompt to do anything with the other files in the source folder.

gordol wrote: ↑Sun Jul 09, 2023 12:31 pm And I'm saying that it's moving things that are NOT associated with the selected file(s). Only one single file was selected here and it moved everything in the source folder.

If you move track off folder and select delete emptied folder then all accompany files are also moved with last file from folder to destination folder. You also get prompt to move accompany files.

With Auto-Organize Files you have control over this, with Auto-Organize, as an automated background process, you don't as it's an automated process and most users would expect there associated files to be moved along (like Artwork, Playlists, liner notes, etc.).

And I'm saying that it's moving things that are NOT associated with the selected file(s). Only one single file was selected here and it moved everything in the source folder.

MediaMonkey moves associated files along with the files being moved if all media files in a folder are being moved by MediaMonkey.

.... yes, that is where they landed.

MMW should only move the files selected and dropped into the UI, not the entire contents of the original folder, and delete the folder only if moving the selected items empties the origin location.

Do you have Auto-Organize enabled? If so, did the extracted file get moved? If so, are the Zip files in that new location?