MM Auto scan multiple drives

veganmark · Post by **veganmark** » Mon Mar 30, 2015 4:11 pm

MM is doing something that it's never done before. I set my default location for music a long, long time ago and I've always had an external drive connected to my pc. However, it's never scanned and tried to add from that location. How can I stop this? Right now, the only way I could stop it was to disconnect my external drive. I don't want this location scanned because it's a backup location for my music library. Also, I have some podcasts deleted from my permanent collection that I have stored on my external drive and I don't want them added back. I looked through all of the options and I can't find an option to exclude this drive from the scan. Did I miss something?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Mar 30, 2015 4:24 pm

Tools > Options > Portable Device Sync

Select drive and then configure

Uncheck box for: Scan as soon as the device is connected

veganmark · Post by **veganmark** » Mon Mar 30, 2015 4:29 pm

Yup, found it before I saw your post. Thanks.

terrypin · Post by **terrypin** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 10:29 am

Just saw this thread as I was about to post a similar query. I have a USB memory stick as drive F: so that I can copy some music tracks and a few playlists to it. But these files copied to F: from my my automatic playlist '1960s' have now duplicated those in that playlist.

Despite that earlier reply, I still don't see why these are getting added to my library, as they are not specified in my settings. Why does that scan option override the main settings?

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Post by **Lowlander** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 10:55 am

How did you copy to the drive?

MMFrLife · Post by **MMFrLife** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 11:16 am

What vers. of MM? There were some duplicate file issues with USB on a version or two just a little while back.

terrypin · Post by **terrypin** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 11:19 am

Lowlander wrote:How did you copy to the drive?

Selected the Playlist then all the files then right-clicked and via the menus:

terrypin · Post by **terrypin** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 11:20 am

MMFrLife wrote:What vers. of MM? There were some duplicate file issues with USB on a version or two just a little while back.

Thanks. This is 3.2.4 (Gold) (Old Gold!).

MMFrLife · Post by **MMFrLife** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 11:29 am

Oh, yeah, duh on me

! I just now noticed your signature

Post by **Lowlander** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 12:24 pm

You should try synchronize instead (same context menu).

Note that you're using a really outdated version of MediaMonkey. Even version 3 had a newer release (3.2.5).

terrypin · Post by **terrypin** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 12:31 pm

Lowlander: I was unable to reproduce this on another attempt! Puzzling.

BTW, what if anything is the distinction between these two menu choices?

Post by **Lowlander** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 12:33 pm

Between those 2, none. The first couple entries are recently used, and the bottom part is all available locations.

terrypin · Post by **terrypin** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 2:52 pm

Lowlander wrote:You should try synchronize instead (same context menu).

Note that you're using a really outdated version of MediaMonkey. Even version 3 had a newer release (3.2.5).

I haven't the confidence to use synchronize until I know exactly what it does!

Post by **Lowlander** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 3:03 pm

In this scenario it synchronizes (creates a copy on the device) the selected files according to the settings in the Device Profile (Tools > Options > something with portable/audio sync). This includes settings such as location and auto-conversion.

terrypin · Post by **terrypin** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 4:20 pm

Lowlander wrote:Between those 2, none. The first couple entries are recently used, and the bottom part is all available locations.

Thanks, understood.

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

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