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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?

Tools > Options > Portable Device Sync

Select drive and then configure

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

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

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

How did you copy to the drive?

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

Lowlander wrote:How did you copy to the drive?

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

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!).

Oh, yeah, duh on me ! I just now noticed your signature

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Note that you're using a really outdated version of MediaMonkey.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).

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

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

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

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Note that you're using a really outdated version of MediaMonkey.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!

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.

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