tag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:/discussions/questions/9878-deleting-unneeded-librariesbeaTunes: Discussion 2018-08-06T20:53:46Ztag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/458456382018-08-06T05:11:20Z2018-08-06T05:11:20Zdeleting unneeded libraries<div><p>Hey Richard,</p>
<p>to delete a library, just select it in the general preferences and then click on the [-] button below it.</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/458456382018-08-06T06:00:00Z2018-08-06T06:00:00Zdeleting unneeded libraries<div><p>Thank you, Hendrick. I didn't think to look there.<br>
So I went to General Preferences, clicked on the list box, selected the first library alphabetically (which is one I want to delete). It pops up a dialog box saying that it is Synchronizing with music library... and there it sits doing nothing. Yes, the folder that the library points to still exists and has music files in it. It has 1 artist and 1 album with 14 tracks. It's been sitting there for 10 minutes with nothing going on in the progress bar. Ideas?</p>
<p>Richard</p>
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<code> From: hendrik <tender+d7c7f9a657@tenderapp.com></code>
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<p>To: <a href="mailto:pattonre@yahoo.com">pattonre@yahoo.com</a> Sent: Monday, August 6, 2018 12:11 AM Subject: Re: deleting unneeded libraries [Questions #9878]</p>
<p>#yiv5747675193 pre {width:92%;margin:10px 2%;padding:5px 2%;background:#efefef;border:1px solid #d6d6d6;}#yiv5747675193 blockquote {margin-left:0;padding-left:1em;border-left:5px solid #ccc;}</p></div>Richardtag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/458456382018-08-06T06:04:18Z2018-08-06T06:04:18Zdeleting unneeded libraries<div><p>Update: If I press Cancel on the dialog box, it doesn't do anything. Same if I press the "close window" X in the upper right. The app is frozen.</p>
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<code> From: Richard Patton <pattonre@yahoo.com></code>
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<p>To: hendrik <a href="mailto:tender+d7c7f9a657@tenderapp.com">tender+d7c7f9a657@tenderapp.com</a> Sent: Monday, August 6, 2018 12:59 AM Subject: Re: deleting unneeded libraries [Questions #9878]</p>
<p>Thank you, Hendrick. I didn't think to look there.<br>
So I went to General Preferences, clicked on the list box, selected the first library alphabetically (which is one I want to delete). It pops up a dialog box saying that it is Synchronizing with music library... and there it sits doing nothing. Yes, the folder that the library points to still exists and has music files in it. It has 1 artist and 1 album with 14 tracks. It's been sitting there for 10 minutes with nothing going on in the progress bar. Ideas?</p>
<p>Richard</p>
<pre>
<code> From: hendrik <tender+d7c7f9a657@tenderapp.com></code>
</pre>
<p>To: <a href="mailto:pattonre@yahoo.com">pattonre@yahoo.com</a> Sent: Monday, August 6, 2018 12:11 AM Subject: Re: deleting unneeded libraries [Questions #9878]</p>
<p>#yiv4346442331 pre {width:92%;margin:10px 2%;padding:5px 2%;background:#efefef;border:1px solid #d6d6d6;}#yiv4346442331 blockquote {margin-left:0;padding-left:1em;border-left:5px solid #ccc;}</p></div>Richardtag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/458456382018-08-06T06:10:03Z2018-08-06T06:10:03Zdeleting unneeded libraries<div><p>More update: beaTunes is showing minimal activity in Process Explorer while this is going on:</p>
<p>"Hung" now for 20 minutes-plus. I'll have to terminate the task in Process Explorer (Task Manager-type app).</p>
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<code> From: Richard Patton <pattonre@yahoo.com></code>
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<p>To: hendrik <a href="mailto:tender+d7c7f9a657@tenderapp.com">tender+d7c7f9a657@tenderapp.com</a> Sent: Monday, August 6, 2018 1:04 AM Subject: Re: deleting unneeded libraries [Questions #9878]</p>
<p>Update: If I press Cancel on the dialog box, it doesn't do anything. Same if I press the "close window" X in the upper right. The app is frozen.</p>
<pre>
<code> From: Richard Patton <pattonre@yahoo.com></code>
</pre>
<p>To: hendrik <a href="mailto:tender+d7c7f9a657@tenderapp.com">tender+d7c7f9a657@tenderapp.com</a> Sent: Monday, August 6, 2018 12:59 AM Subject: Re: deleting unneeded libraries [Questions #9878]</p>
<p>Thank you, Hendrick. I didn't think to look there.<br>
So I went to General Preferences, clicked on the list box, selected the first library alphabetically (which is one I want to delete). It pops up a dialog box saying that it is Synchronizing with music library... and there it sits doing nothing. Yes, the folder that the library points to still exists and has music files in it. It has 1 artist and 1 album with 14 tracks. It's been sitting there for 10 minutes with nothing going on in the progress bar. Ideas?</p>
<p>Richard</p>
<pre>
<code> From: hendrik <tender+d7c7f9a657@tenderapp.com></code>
</pre>
<p>To: <a href="mailto:pattonre@yahoo.com">pattonre@yahoo.com</a> Sent: Monday, August 6, 2018 12:11 AM Subject: Re: deleting unneeded libraries [Questions #9878]</p>
<p>#yiv0991454378 pre {width:92%;margin:10px 2%;padding:5px 2%;background:#efefef;border:1px solid #d6d6d6;}#yiv0991454378 blockquote {margin-left:0;padding-left:1em;border-left:5px solid #ccc;}</p></div>Richardtag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/458456382018-08-06T06:21:59Z2018-08-06T06:21:59Zdeleting unneeded libraries<div><p>Further update (sorry about the volley of e-mails):<br>
I restarted beaTunes and tried to delete the library it was already on. That worked fine. Then I deleted the next one that popped up. That worked fine, too. But when I went to select the one I first tried to delete, it hung again. Either something about that particular library it doesn't like, or it can't change libraries.</p>
<p>I restarted beaTunes and this time selected a different library in the Preferences (not the one that it was hanging on before). Same thing: it hangs if I select a different library than the one that comes up when I start up beaTunes.</p>
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<code> From: Richard Patton <pattonre@yahoo.com></code>
</pre>
<p>To: hendrik <a href="mailto:tender+d7c7f9a657@tenderapp.com">tender+d7c7f9a657@tenderapp.com</a> Sent: Monday, August 6, 2018 1:09 AM Subject: Re: deleting unneeded libraries [Questions #9878]</p>
<p>More update: beaTunes is showing minimal activity in Process Explorer while this is going on:</p>
<p>"Hung" now for 20 minutes-plus. I'll have to terminate the task in Process Explorer (Task Manager-type app).</p>
<pre>
<code> From: Richard Patton <pattonre@yahoo.com></code>
</pre>
<p>To: hendrik <a href="mailto:tender+d7c7f9a657@tenderapp.com">tender+d7c7f9a657@tenderapp.com</a> Sent: Monday, August 6, 2018 1:04 AM Subject: Re: deleting unneeded libraries [Questions #9878]</p>
<p>Update: If I press Cancel on the dialog box, it doesn't do anything. Same if I press the "close window" X in the upper right. The app is frozen.</p>
<pre>
<code> From: Richard Patton <pattonre@yahoo.com></code>
</pre>
<p>To: hendrik <a href="mailto:tender+d7c7f9a657@tenderapp.com">tender+d7c7f9a657@tenderapp.com</a> Sent: Monday, August 6, 2018 12:59 AM Subject: Re: deleting unneeded libraries [Questions #9878]</p>
<p>Thank you, Hendrick. I didn't think to look there.<br>
So I went to General Preferences, clicked on the list box, selected the first library alphabetically (which is one I want to delete). It pops up a dialog box saying that it is Synchronizing with music library... and there it sits doing nothing. Yes, the folder that the library points to still exists and has music files in it. It has 1 artist and 1 album with 14 tracks. It's been sitting there for 10 minutes with nothing going on in the progress bar. Ideas?</p>
<p>Richard</p>
<pre>
<code> From: hendrik <tender+d7c7f9a657@tenderapp.com></code>
</pre>
<p>To: <a href="mailto:pattonre@yahoo.com">pattonre@yahoo.com</a> Sent: Monday, August 6, 2018 12:11 AM Subject: Re: deleting unneeded libraries [Questions #9878]</p>
<p>#yiv8206613893 pre {width:92%;margin:10px 2%;padding:5px 2%;background:#efefef;border:1px solid #d6d6d6;}#yiv8206613893 blockquote {margin-left:0;padding-left:1em;border-left:5px solid #ccc;}</p></div>Richardtag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/458456382018-08-06T15:09:03Z2018-08-06T15:09:03Zdeleting unneeded libraries<div><p>Hendrick, continuing with my library issue...<br>
Is it possible that the problem is something simple like beaTunes doesn't like certain kinds of folder names? And maybe that was something that was introduced in an update that came in after I had created those libraries?</p>
<p>My folder naming convention is to place music into the D:\Rips folder (for music I rip myself) or the D:\MuDl folder (for music I download). And then the subfolders get the artist name, except for the MuDl subfolders I append " [d]" to the folder name just to make it easier to distinguish folders for the same artist that appear under my two top level folders.<br>
I notice that beaTunes seems to have a problem with all of the libraries that are based on a folder with a "[d]" in the name. See screen cap below of all of my remaining libraries. When I try to delete the "10cc" library, it appears to do so, then it tries to access the "Arena [d]" library and gets hung. When I terminate & reopen beaTunes, it goes back to the 10cc library. So it didn't actually finish deleting that library, I guess because it had no viable alternate library to go to?</p>
<p>Richard</p>
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<code> From: Richard Patton <pattonre@yahoo.com></code>
</pre>
<p>To: hendrik <a href="mailto:tender+d7c7f9a657@tenderapp.com">tender+d7c7f9a657@tenderapp.com</a> Sent: Monday, August 6, 2018 1:17 AM Subject: Re: deleting unneeded libraries [Questions #9878]</p>
<p>Further update (sorry about the volley of e-mails):<br>
I restarted beaTunes and tried to delete the library it was already on. That worked fine. Then I deleted the next one that popped up. That worked fine, too. But when I went to select the one I first tried to delete, it hung again. Either something about that particular library it doesn't like, or it can't change libraries.</p>
<p>I restarted beaTunes and this time selected a different library in the Preferences (not the one that it was hanging on before). Same thing: it hangs if I select a different library than the one that comes up when I start up beaTunes.</p>
<pre>
<code> From: Richard Patton <pattonre@yahoo.com></code>
</pre>
<p>To: hendrik <a href="mailto:tender+d7c7f9a657@tenderapp.com">tender+d7c7f9a657@tenderapp.com</a> Sent: Monday, August 6, 2018 1:09 AM Subject: Re: deleting unneeded libraries [Questions #9878]</p>
<p>More update: beaTunes is showing minimal activity in Process Explorer while this is going on:</p>
<p>"Hung" now for 20 minutes-plus. I'll have to terminate the task in Process Explorer (Task Manager-type app).</p>
<pre>
<code> From: Richard Patton <pattonre@yahoo.com></code>
</pre>
<p>To: hendrik <a href="mailto:tender+d7c7f9a657@tenderapp.com">tender+d7c7f9a657@tenderapp.com</a> Sent: Monday, August 6, 2018 1:04 AM Subject: Re: deleting unneeded libraries [Questions #9878]</p>
<p>Update: If I press Cancel on the dialog box, it doesn't do anything. Same if I press the "close window" X in the upper right. The app is frozen.</p>
<pre>
<code> From: Richard Patton <pattonre@yahoo.com></code>
</pre>
<p>To: hendrik <a href="mailto:tender+d7c7f9a657@tenderapp.com">tender+d7c7f9a657@tenderapp.com</a> Sent: Monday, August 6, 2018 12:59 AM Subject: Re: deleting unneeded libraries [Questions #9878]</p>
<p>Thank you, Hendrick. I didn't think to look there.<br>
So I went to General Preferences, clicked on the list box, selected the first library alphabetically (which is one I want to delete). It pops up a dialog box saying that it is Synchronizing with music library... and there it sits doing nothing. Yes, the folder that the library points to still exists and has music files in it. It has 1 artist and 1 album with 14 tracks. It's been sitting there for 10 minutes with nothing going on in the progress bar. Ideas?</p>
<p>Richard</p>
<pre>
<code> From: hendrik <tender+d7c7f9a657@tenderapp.com></code>
</pre>
<p>To: <a href="mailto:pattonre@yahoo.com">pattonre@yahoo.com</a> Sent: Monday, August 6, 2018 12:11 AM Subject: Re: deleting unneeded libraries [Questions #9878]</p>
<p>#yiv1562716310 pre {width:92%;margin:10px 2%;padding:5px 2%;background:#efefef;border:1px solid #d6d6d6;}#yiv1562716310 blockquote {margin-left:0;padding-left:1em;border-left:5px solid #ccc;}</p></div>Richardtag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/458456382018-08-06T20:12:25Z2018-08-06T20:12:25Zdeleting unneeded libraries<div><p>Ah—usually when you select a library beaTunes syncs. That does not make a lot of sense when you just want to delete it.</p>
<p>So the better approach in your case may really be to delete the corresponding entries in preferences2.xml</p>
<p>If you decide to do so:</p>
<ul>
<li>keep a copy of the original around so that you can go back</li>
<li>make sure beaTunes is shut down, while you edit the file</li>
</ul>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/458456382018-08-06T20:31:28Z2018-08-06T20:31:28Zdeleting unneeded libraries<div><p>Hendrick, I can do that as a workaround (removing the entries from preferences2.xml). But doesn't that indicate a problem nonetheless? What if I really wanted to make one of those folders my library? beaTunes hangs when synching in the course of switching to it, so I couldn't designate one of those as my library even if I wanted to. Just sayin'.<br>
Also, as part of the workaround, should I delete the h2 and trace db files corresponding to the libraries I'm deleting from preferences2.xml?</p>
<p>Best regards,Richard</p>
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<code> From: hendrik <tender+d7c7f9a657@tenderapp.com></code>
</pre>
<p>To: <a href="mailto:pattonre@yahoo.com">pattonre@yahoo.com</a> Sent: Monday, August 6, 2018 3:12 PM Subject: Re: deleting unneeded libraries [Questions #9878]</p>
<p>#yiv0723234375 pre {width:92%;margin:10px 2%;padding:5px 2%;background:#efefef;border:1px solid #d6d6d6;}#yiv0723234375 blockquote {margin-left:0;padding-left:1em;border-left:5px solid #ccc;}</p></div>Richardtag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/458456382018-08-06T20:53:45Z2018-08-06T20:53:45Zdeleting unneeded libraries<div><p>Yes, you can delete the corresponding h2 files.</p></div>hendrik