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    Dennis, I'm adding to this thread as I think I have encountered another issue with maintaining libraries.

    I'm not sure but I think my library was originally created by scanning the PC that hosts Mezzmo. At some point in time I must have added *some* of the PC's folders under the top level Music, Videa and Photo playlists. Recently, I copied all the media files on the mezzmo PC to my NAS and added the NAS folder to the Library root. I then deleted any folder references for the mezzmo PC. Finally I ran both playlist and library maintenance. Unforatunately mezzmo still has all mezzmo PC files listed in its playlists. I had to go into top level playlists and manually delete all references to the mezzmo PC files.

    Is this what's supposed to happen?
    Is there an easy way to remove files that are added to the library through a scan?

    Thanks

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    In Maintenance did you choose the option to "Remove files that cannot be accessed"? That should've removed all files from the Library that cannot be accessed (e.g. have been moved or deleted).

    Mezzmo Android: Install it on your tablet, smartphone, Android TV or Amazon Fire to browse and stream files from your Mezzmo library to all your devices. Full details at http://www.conceiva.com/products/mez...mo_android.asp
    Mezzmo for Kodi Add-on: Install it into Kodi to stream files from your Mezzmo library directly in Kodi. Full details at http://www.mezzmo.com/wiki/doku.php?...odi_user_guide
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    I did have that checked (see the images earlier in the thread) but the files weren't deleted. Had to delete them manually.

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    Do the files still exist in their original locations? If you click on a file, do you see properties in Mezzmo? Did you just copy or move files to your NAS?

    Mezzmo Android: Install it on your tablet, smartphone, Android TV or Amazon Fire to browse and stream files from your Mezzmo library to all your devices. Full details at http://www.conceiva.com/products/mez...mo_android.asp
    Mezzmo for Kodi Add-on: Install it into Kodi to stream files from your Mezzmo library directly in Kodi. Full details at http://www.mezzmo.com/wiki/doku.php?...odi_user_guide
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dennis View Post
    Do the files still exist in their original locations? If you click on a file, do you see properties in Mezzmo? Did you just copy or move files to your NAS?
    Files were copied to NAS. Files still exist in original locations.

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    Ok, so that would be the reason why they still appear in playlists. When you remove a folder from within Mezzmo, but keep the files in their original location, they won't be removed from the database and will appear in playlists. The logic there is if you re-add those existing folders, we won't need to process the files as they're already in the database. Our reasoning was that more often files are moved around, not copied and if they're moved, then they won't be in the original location and thus will be removed from the database.

    Sounds like we'll need to add an option to scan the database and remove all files not appearing in any of the folders or normal playlists.

    Mezzmo Android: Install it on your tablet, smartphone, Android TV or Amazon Fire to browse and stream files from your Mezzmo library to all your devices. Full details at http://www.conceiva.com/products/mez...mo_android.asp
    Mezzmo for Kodi Add-on: Install it into Kodi to stream files from your Mezzmo library directly in Kodi. Full details at http://www.mezzmo.com/wiki/doku.php?...odi_user_guide
    Mezzmo for Roku App: Install it onto your Roku to stream files from your Mezzmo library. Full details at http://www.mezzmo.com/wiki/doku.php?...oku_user_guide
    Wiki: User Guides & Reference Manual at http://www.mezzmo.com/wiki
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dennis View Post
    Sounds like we'll need to add an option to scan the database and remove all files not appearing in any of the folders or normal playlists.
    Options are always good! Think you might want to think about explaining scanning vs folders a bit better also... To be honest, I don't know why anyone would want to just scan once. Scanning seems to be contrary to whole idea of Mezzmo's ability to dynamically maintain the library.

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    Thanks for this post - This is exactly the problem I had been having with DLNA on my Blue Ray Player - the folder structure wasnt intact and it made search and browsing almost useable.

    Have had Mezzmo running on my Windows Home Server and its been Great.

    a special treat is that I upgraded to a Direct TV HD DVD with supports local streaming. almost unusable without Mezzmo. ( very limited codec support)

    works flawlessly with Mezzmo

    You guys should contact the home server crowd - Mezzmo is a perfect addition to Windows Home Server 2011
    the built in WHS 2011 DLNA client is pathetic. Yours rocks

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