Confused about folder structure (winamp related)

whs said:

I would download XP mode and run Winamp there. It was apparently not properly adapted to Windows7.

I had occasion to use Winamp on W7 through another tool that showed play times of media files. If you double clicked in the other tool, it's supposed to play the file in the default player for the file type.

Turned out sometimes it would open Winamp if that was the player for that file type, and sometimes it wouldn't. I messed around with it and tracked it down to skin type if you can believe that. Winamp skins with one file extension worked, while all the Winamp skins with an alternate file extension failed. Really really weird!!

ToastMaster said:

Hi all,

Some more detail on this:

> If you delete one does the other disappear also?

Yes. If I open both locations and move / delete a file from one, it immediately removes from the other location too. So I don't have two copies of the file - it's one file being shown under two locations.

> This almost sounds like it was an upgrade install of Windows 7 from XP, and the C:\Documents and Settings folder from the windows.old folder got copied over to the new install.

When I bough the new PC and re-installed winamp, I wanted to keep my ratings and play counts etc from my old PC, so I exported my library as a file, then loaded that into my new Win7 PC setup. Could it be this that's causing the problem?

My PC is definitely new - not an OS upgrade.

Thanks for the continued help on this

Jody

Jody, I do not have a solution; but now, at least, you know that you do not have duplicate files. I have the same thing ocurring with Pictures in my library. I have some files were created when I was running XP. After a clean install of Windows 7, I moved them back and they display both in pictures and in the old My Pictures. However, I only have the one set of files. After I figured out what was going on, I just ignore it.

New Win 7 PC here - not an upgrade.

It's the way Windows 7 has been made to work. The duplicate files referred to in this thread are not imaginary and Winamp is not the only program that processes duplicate files when searching the hard drive for importing data, especially data captured and transferred by Windows Easy Transfer.

I struggled with this early on and never found a solution. This thread is as close to describing the problem, as I encountered, when trying to find an answer a few weeks ago.

All the email programs I tried (no Outlook Express in Win 7) including Outlook 2007, Windows Live Mail, Mozilla, Eudora, Zimbra and one other that escapes me at the moment, all tried to find my files for me, without asking exactly where the files I wanted to import were located.

When that happened, each of these programs imported 4 copies of all email and contacts. I had a hell of a time figuring out how to fix it - end result was manual and time consuming. Same thing for Windows Media and my music.

Today I still struggle with the architecture of Win 7 - can't leave well enough alone - change for the sake of change.............