Merge Duplicates causing Hoster to not respond

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by stefbeme

I have gone back, added the files from quarantine, double checked to make sure there are no other files in the KMA folder as well have checked for duplicates again. I have now successfully added 6000 new files. Hoorah!

My other files that are zipped I am using the index option, it has added appx 40,000 files and now is causing hoster to stop responding. It was working fine for the first 40,000, but I still have about 35,000 to go. I have restarted my computer, restarted hoster and still no success.

Please advise. Thanks!!

How much free space showing on your hard drive ?
When you added the files from the quarantine folder did you copy them or move them ?
If you copied them then you are using twice the space and may be the reason you are getting the not responding, you need to delete anything in the quarantine folders once you have copied them.

[stefbeme]

At the time, I had 101GB, so I deleted the contents of the Quarantine and dumped my recycle bin, now up to 160. I was able to index a few more files and it stops again.
Now I am one of those OCD folks, so I was using the option for DiscID-Track_Artist_title. Thinking this may be causing the problem I am now trying to import the remaining files using the Ignore-Title-Artist option. I have attempted 3 times and it has halted Hoster "not responding", which closes Hoster automatically.

[Roy Dennis]

Is that 160 Gb left or 160 MB ?

Are you importing the the zip files as kma or kmh ?

If you are importing them as kma then you are doubling up on your storage.

If you import them as kma then you no longer need the original zip file either store the zip on another hard drive for backup purposes or delete them, else import them as kmh type which will only add a small header file of a few bytes to each file that remains in the same folder as the zip.

[stefbeme]

It is truly 160 GB, not MB. I am importing them as KMH, not KMA. And to make matters worse, I was mistaken I have another show tonight. Feeling pretty panicked because my second laptop had started demonstrating same behavior during the re-import of KMH files.

[Roy Dennis]

I can't think of anything else to suggest other than I try and look into your computer remotely.
If this is acceptable to you and we can arrange a time to suit us both, I am on UK time. If you would like me to look into your computer then you need to activate private messaging from the UserCp of this forum. Then PM me in that and I'll explain what you need to do privately.