Re: Library won't recognize updated files

JPH wrote:
> thanks for your in-depth technical insight Mike! It is definitely a flaw in
> WMP that it still shows all of the ghost files. They don't exist anymore,
> I've already deleted them on my hard drive.

I said to delete them in WMP not on the hard drive. The WMP library is
just an index, and your first post did not indicate if you had tried
this simple task.

Doing a search of the PC does not
> show any results, yet WMP thinks they are there! The reason is not as simple
> as selecting them all in WMP and hitting delete is that there are literally
> thousands of songs I've already deleted interspersed with thousands of songs
> that I want to keep.

Just sort all your music by File Path (not File Name) and then you can
delete everything on the desired hard drive in one go.

>
> I'll move on since it is clear that my company has created a flawed product
>
> "Mike Williams" wrote:
>
>> Select the files in WMP and hit "Delete" button on your keyboard
>>
>> "JPH" wrote:
>>
>>> Here is my situation. I had an external hard drive with 3,000+ songs attached
>>> to my Windows Media Center PC. I have removed the external drive, yet Windows
>>> Media Player still think the files exist. I have tried everything I can think
>>> of including asking the player to re-search my C drive several different
>>> times, but to no avail. I have deleted the history & cache in the player and
>>> emptied the deleted items folder on the hard drive. I have done a regular
>>> Windows Search for the files and they don't show up, yet the player still
>>> thinks they exist.
>>>
>>> Help!
>>>
>>>