Remove dead/missing duplicates

[RobKaz]

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!

[amotto11]

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.

[Peke]

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

[UnlimitedMM]

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...

[Peke]

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.