file synch conundrum
 

There's probably not a simple fix to this problem but here it is:

I have most of my music on my desktop hard drive D: at some point I copied/backed up my library to a passport drive and began using that for a few months while I was in transition. I realized that it would be nice if I backed shit up properly but saw I had created a problem.

F:\My Music has ~ 49,000 files that have been mostly cleaned for dupes and junk but has maybe 5,000 new files on it.

D:\My Music has the same~49,000 files though not cleaned for dupes and junk and may have a few hundred files uncommon to F:\

If I use D: (the older drive) as the source it will put a ton of crap back onto F:, If I make F: the source it will add the new songs to D: and delete the junk, but what about the files on D: that are not on F:?

I already have a headache.

Well, if you use F: as the source, and tell Windoze to overwrite existing files in favor of the source, then it will dupe F: onto D:. However!

The only time this will happen is if the source and target have the exact same filename. If you have changed the filename, you will have a whole lotta dupes.

If you have different files on D:, then they will remain unaffected.

I have a similar setup in that my music (125,000-ish) are on a Passport (PLUG! Luv em!) nd any new file that have not been edited for tag data/vetted for dupes reside on my home directory in /Music. Housekeeping becomes exponentially more difficult with any increase in total number of files.

You may wish to try a duplicate file finding utility like Easy Duplicate File Finder
or something from Sourceforge or Tucows. I have no experience with these, so caveat emptor!

Yeah I've cleaned with Duplicate file finder and Duplicate file detective and each has not seen obvious dupes for some reason, I'm always hesitant to overwrite files in XP, 7 seems a bit safer.

I think the tool you are looking for is MediaMonkey.










Stream everything, lose nothing. Spotify.

Yes I use media monkey and I cleaned each drive with that but when you go to find duplicates if only lefts you delete them one at a time to help prevent accidental deletion.

An odd thing I've discovered with MM is from time to time a song will have its title, artist, and album corrupted. eg, it will show the song as Third Uncle -- Brian Eno -- Taking Tiger Mountain but the path is D:\My Music\The Beatles\Abbey Road\Maxwell's Silver Hammer.

When I right click and auto tag by file name it fixes it, so a huge bulk deletion by song title would be unwise in this case.

:p:

Golf clap?

Golf clap.

The DB was so fucked up I just deleted it and let MM create a new one. It's still kind of fucked up.

Oh, MM is MediaMonkey. For a second, I though you had pressed your child into data entry labor.

I'm laying the ground work;)